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Sometimes the best escape isn’t a weekend away. It’s the park just down the road.
A new study has shown that more vegetation is not automatically better.
Kumasi was once considered among west Africa’s greenest cities.
It’s not enough to have parks in city outskirts or urban green belts. Green spaces must be accessible for residents and placed to provide effective flood protection for cities.
The tangle of greenery along railway lines, flowers growing on vacant lots, or unmown grassy patches under power lines, it turns out people in cities engage with nature in all these spaces.
City parks are like outdoor living rooms: If people feel welcome and relaxed, they will settle in.
Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, has a chief heat officer, the first in Africa. She has her work cut out for her.
A longtime critic of Atlanta’s BeltLine explains how the popular network of parks has increased inequality in the city and driven out lower-income residents.
Turning a disused Victorian railway bridge into an elevated walkway and garden has the potential to rejuvenate a forgotten part of the city.
In cities across Europe, 62% of the population doesn’t have access to the amount of nature the World Health Organisation recommends.
Park policy must reimagine parks as more than a contributor to property value and consider how they can be used as community resources.
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