Month: March 2016
“We all need a special place…” #Benchstories #Naturesared
Today’s Bench Story comes from the journal in the Open Spaces Sacred Places at Stadium Place-Thanksgiving Place in Baltimore, MD. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found in all TKF Foundation Open Spaces Sacred Places….
An Experience Within Green Infrastructure
This month we’ve briefly reviewed the shifts in large-scale urban infrastructure design. Effective technological innovations in transportation, communications, energy, and environmental services (water, wastewater, garbage disposal) in the 19th and early 20th century enabled economic growth, and contributed to the physical transformation of city planning and development. Today, cities across the globe are embracing ‘sustainable’…
“What Dose of Nature Do We Need to Feel Better?” – Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks
Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks – Spring 2016 Article by Jared Green Excerpt: “…A group of ambitious landscape architects and psychologists are actually trying to determine how to prescribe a ‘nature pill.’ The big remaining questions are: What dose of nature exposure is needed to achieve maximum mental and physical health benefits?…And what form of nature works…
“We Must Better Communicate the Health Benefits of Nature” – Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks
Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks – Spring 2016 Article by Jared Green Excerpt: “…According to the experts, even a small urban garden can provide benefits, but members of the public don’t think these places offer a true break, only those places that truly remove them from their everyday urban life. …” Read the article. …
Language and confusion is only a barrier…. #Benchstories #Naturesacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the journal in the Open Spaces Sacred Places at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, MD. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found in all TKF Foundation Open Spaces Sacred Places….
“Only time will tell and I have a lot of that…” #Benchstories #Naturesacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the journal in the Open Spaces Sacred Places at the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found in all TKF Foundation Open Spaces Sacred Places….
Overlapping Benefits of Green Infrastructure
Urban greening initiatives are in operation or in development around the globe. In a roundtable this past week from Nature of Cities, David Maddox reminds us “…The word landscape conveys a richer meaning that includes, of course, the aesthetics of nature and the out of doors, but also the organization and design or infrastructure, the biophysical and social services…
“A soft kiss to the history of what we are…” #Benchstories “Naturesacred
Today’s Bench Story comes from the journal in the Open Spaces Sacred Places at the Baltimore Clayworks in Baltimore, MD. #Benchstories are collected from the journals found in all TKF Foundation Open Spaces Sacred Places….
A Brief History of Urban Infrastructure
Grey Infrastructure In the mid-19th century the “sanitary idea”, proposed by Edwin Chadwick in England, stressed the importance of the physical environment and the role of decaying organic matter as the source of disease. Sanitary engineering solutions emerged, focused on rapid and efficient disposal of urban wastes and providing clean water. What we now call Grey…
