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IMPORTANT UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS. THE EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE.
For many years urban parks across the U.S. sank into decay and disuse. However, as cities have begun to rebound — and as evidence of the economic, cultural, and health benefits of parks continues to grow — investment in these valuable facilities has swelled. But many of the best examples do not fit the conventional park model. They are being built in surprising places, like rooftops, old railyards, highway decks, covered reservoirs and widened stream valleys. And by serving duty as everything from community gardens to schoolyard parks to cemeteries-for-the-living to recreational retention ponds, the urban parks movement is transforming cities for residents, families, commuters and visitors alike.
Peter Harnik, director of the Center for City Park Excellence at the Trust for Public Land, will give a sneak preview of his forthcoming book, Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, showing all of the newest ideas for "built out" cities to add much-needed parkland. Using photographs and interviews from his extensive travels to American cities, Mr. Harnik will highlight the country’s most exciting and innovative approaches, and reveal the real-life challenges and solutions are to creating more urban parks. Harnik, a long-time environmentalist, co-founded the City Parks Alliance, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail, and served many years as president of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association.
Register for the event through the Calendar at www.nbm.org.
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