If parks become music venues then locals deserve more input, and a fairer share of the rewards.
- Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester
Turning a disused Victorian railway bridge into an elevated walkway and garden has the potential to rejuvenate a forgotten part of the city.
The promised £39 million is not enough to ‘level up’ park provision in the UK.
Pop-up spaces can be successful, they just need to be better thought through and created with urban ecology in mind rather than economics.
Access to parks and green space in England’s cities is far from equal.
Decades after the Good Friday Agreement, urban space in Belfast is still divided.
Parks have a vital role to play for both physical and mental wellbeing.
Approximately 50% of the UK’s poorest people live over 15 miles from a national park and most people require transport to get to them.
Such projects should be clear from the outset about who owns them, who will build them, and who they are for.
In a busy city like London, green space is a valuable commodity.
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