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If You Plant It, They Will Come: The Push to Create More Pollinator Cities

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, 316 bus stops are now planted with flowering greenery, inviting pollinators like bees to stop by and take a blossom break. The Netherlands initiated the project ...

The Tide: An Elevated Linear Park for London’s Thames Riverfront

Construction is currently in progress on a new elevated linear park running along the river Thames. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, “The Tide” offers a multi-level landscape for ...

New York’s Newest Waterfront Park Revitalizes an Abandoned Industrial Site

In Long Island City, nearly 11 acres of continuous waterfront park have bloomed along a formerly abandoned industrial landscape, offering a buffet of recreational opportunities while protecting ...

Pickup Truck Gardens: Japanese Contest Celebrates Mobile Greenery

Set within the beds of small white Japanese pickup trucks known as 'kei,' these gardens are so lush and complex, they look like they've been established for many years. In reality, each one had ...

War Games: 12 Kid-Friendly Park & Playground Tanks

Why scrap a decommissioned tank or self-propelled gun when it can easily be re-purposed as playground equipment, asked nobody ever. ALMOST nobody, that is. This pair of colorful ex-Soviet ...

Rail to Trail: 12 U.S. Park Projects Reclaiming Urban Infrastructure

A whole lot of valuable land in America's densest urban centers is occupied by the disused and often toxic remnants of neglected infrastructure, industrial complexes and other blight that could ...

Where Gods Live: Forest Environment Enhanced by Live Digital Projections

As if forests aren’t magical enough already, the Japanese art/technology collective Teamlab will be live-projecting their signature transforming visuals onto the surfaces of Mifuneyama Rakuen ...

Revitalizing the L.A. River: 7 Architects Envision Fresh Uses for Old Waterway

The Los Angeles river changes dramatically as it snakes into and through the city, and these different design proposals carry that legacy forward while envisioning new, user-friendly, flexible ...

Looping Bicycle Bridge Lets Cyclists Ride Right Over a School Roof

Many a cyclist has fantasized about being able to bike right over the chaos of a city, avoiding traffic, intersections and trouble areas so they can just enjoy the ride. A Dutch architecture firm ...

Now Complete, the Chicago Riverwalk Reclaims Disused Industrial Shore

The final phase of the Chicago Riverwalk opened to the public this weekend, completing a project that connects the city’s downtown area to a previously neglected industrial waterfront. For ...

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