November 13, 2013
New York City’s High Line park has just announced plans to add The Spur, the bowl-shaped gateway to the park’s third and final phase, the High Line at the Rail Yards.
Accessed through a circular structure lined with dense woodland … Read More...
Category: Greening
Tags: elevated railway park, Friends of the High Line, greening public spaces, High Line, High Line at the Rail Yards, Hudson Rail Yards, landscape architecture, Manhattan Parks, Meatpacking District, NYC, NYC Parks, The Spur, urban green space, urban planning, Urban renewal
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February 17, 2012
In the refrain from one her most famous songs, Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell sang:
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Greening, Irrigation, Permaculture
Tags: urban green space, urban parks, urban public green space, urban wetlands
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February 26, 2010
I’m looking forward to this spring, when a portion of the future 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 6 is scheduled to open, followed by Pier 1 scheduled to open this winter, with the entire project expected to be completed … Read More...
Category: Community Gardens, Green & Sustainable, Greening, Permaculture
Tags: Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City public green space, Public Gardens, public green areas, public green space, public parks, sustainability, sustainable landscaping, sustainable urban gardens, urban green space, urban parks, urban public areas, urban waterfront development, watershed
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February 22, 2010
A gardener’s gotta go when a gardener’s gotta go…garden.
Functional and compact, these aesthetically conceived contemporary gardening tools, designed for American agri-industry brand John Deere by Mexican designers Richard Gomez and Veronica Heredia Otero, are great even for those without … Read More...
Category: Finding, Great Finds
Tags: garden tools, gardening tools, modern garden tools, urban gardening tools, urban green space
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