A Kansas county asks: Can we restore public health by restoring our parks?
A male in Wyandotte County, Kansas can expect to live about seven fewer years than a male in neighboring Johnson County, Missouri. A female…
Issue #21: February 15, 2016
Iconic Blackburn (UK) building to be repurposed as restaurant, bar, & theatre
A £5 million plan has been unveiled to transform one of Blackburn‘s (Lancashire, England) most iconic buildings from a derelict shell into a restaurant,…
Urban Commons: A new old way to revitalize the social life of cities?
Urban commons like parks, sanitation systems, public schools, public transit, libraries, hospitals, labor unions, private and public social welfare agencies emerged throughout the 19th…
VIDEO and ARTICLE: Growing the Restoration Economy
This 2010 article is by Jared Green, Editor of The Dirt blog, and a manager at the American Society of Landscape Architects. He reports…
A new metric for urban revitalization: The Infill Score
In the last four months of 2015, 160 cities have benchmarked their infill program using Infill Score. We have organized some of the top…