Sentences with phrase «pocket park»

You know, there are a lot of us who've been protecting little pocket parks while development grows up around them.
«We built a really nice pocket park with a water feature and an organic wall,» he noted.
Homage to Guerrilla Gardening (2011) is a site - specific installation conceived by Alison Williams for Marie Celeste, and commissioned by Artspace for The Lot — a municipal pocket park in New Haven.
In his 2013 State of the District address, he discussed the possibility of creating a new CUNY campus at the site, building a residential and retail development near 207th Street, and reviving the plan to create an esplanade and pocket parks along Sherman Creek.
The first is a site - specific installation in The Lot — a nearby municipal pocket park and transit stop located at 812 Chapel Street.
In addition to its fascinating parks like Pleasure Beach and Seaside Park, almost every neighborhood in the city has its own pocket park for residents to enjoy.
The project also includes new curbs, sidewalks, streetlighting, landscaping, utility upgrades and the creation of a passive neighborhood pocket park.
I finished my muffin and sipped my tea looking down from my bedroom window at the leafy pocket park that occupies the combined property behind all the buildings on our block and reminds me of my home in England.
From one green pocket park to the other's a 10 - minute walk across Walnut Street if you don't browse all the main street's shops.
The physical installation consists of two over-sized basketball backboards and rims that have been affixed to two 25» rigger poles located on the grounds of The Lot — a small pocket park and transit stop located three blocks from Artspace at the corner of Chapel and Orange Streets.
They did so by turning more than 50 parking spaces (with permits) into temporary vest - pocket parks complete with activities, seating, greenery and even water sports: in the case of the installation at 116th Street and Broadway, it was a water balloon toss.
My ongoing inspiration for this work is a deep reverence for the natural world, stemming from experiences ranging from exploring urban pocket parks to backpacking in the wilderness.
Throughout her 30 year career, she has built an incredible track record of creating and protecting parks, from vest - pocket parks in cities to landscape parks like Sterling Forest.
Recently Erie County has made significant progress restoring 4 pocket parks along the Buffalo River.
They range from little pocket parks to what we are doing in Seattle, which is a 26 - mile - long trail system that goes through three counties.»
Or stay closer to home and make your way to the local restaurants or grocery at Georgetown Shopping, conveniently connected by a gated pedestrian access through the communitys own pocket park.
Visit one of many large parks, pocket parks, playing fields, Lake Arlington, tennis courts and club, dog park, or golf courses.
«So the trail and all the pocket parks that are being developed are going to encourage our community to... be more active,» she said.
Other proposed waterfront projects include adding street - end waterfront parks along the Harlem River on West 215th and 216th streets, similar to the way that the city has added «pocket parks» near Sherman Creek at Dyckman St. and Ninth Avenue.
Erie County is fortunate to have four natural habitat «pocket parks» located in downtown Buffalo.
Erie County's natural habitat «pocket parks» are situated along the Buffalo River, which is designated as a toxic water body, or «Area of Concern» (AOC).
A surging wall of water gushed through the pocket parks and tree - lined streets of downtown Brisbane, saturating trendy boutiques, stately government buildings, and gleaming glass skyscrapers.
Its pedestrian - friendly, high - density neighborhoods (14,000 people per square mile) are clustered around high - rises, multifamily dwellings, restaurants, groceries, shops and pocket parks, and have wide sidewalks that encourage walking and short blocks that slow traffic.
Landscape architects and urban planners are responding to this need for a softer and greener built environment by incorporating «green» wildlife corridors, pocket parks, landscaped squares, green roofs and living walls in urban areas.
I like to believe that when I pause and take a picture of one of the flowers in this pocket park, I'm seeing it differently, maybe appreciating it more, looking at it with the photographer's eye.
Right outside my apartment is a pocket park.
Those years — Alisha calls them «adult - ing» — were all about work (for her, at a nonprofit focused on free speech) and study (for him), threaded with raising two Boston terriers, Murphy and Millie, making friends, and exploring the city's alleyways and pocket parks.
He's best known, of course, for his use of songs as a shield and weapon, but to get the full Pete Seeger you had to see him sing «Abiyoyo» as he danced on his long pipe - cleaner legs through the children gathered on Little Stony Point, a vest - pocket park that he helped create along the Hudson.
LinkUp showcases projects that connect function with social interaction, such as steps that act as an informal piece of furniture for conversation and mobile «pocket parks
A stylish chair of recycled paper, tree - free paper, mobile «pocket parks,» and an air purification sculpture of Korean oak.
Hapa Collaborative works within the full breadth of scales from master plans to pocket parks, civic spaces to private residences, streetscapes to green roofs Frequency about 1 post per month.
The Greater Fairfield Board of REALTORS ® (CT) created a pocket park to educate visitors on sustainable gardening and native plants.
Is a father more likely to put in a little «catch» with his daughter if he has to drive her 20 minutes through stoplights, or if he can do it in a pocket park four doors down?
Communities that offer a variety of public spaces — pocket parks, trails, pedestrian plazas, and community garden — are often more desirable making them better places to live and buy a home.
The flowering planters that create an oasis on the roof terrace are mirrored in a pocket park at the tip of the site on ground level.
Their projects elevate the essential character of a place and support natural and social systems, encompassing gardens, pocket parks and greenspaces for public and private associations in urban and natural settings.
Community organizations can petition to use an existing vacant property for a pocket park.
The second approach reduced the size of the commons and added two pocket parks and more street front green space.
In 2017, the main project included exterior improvements for 10 properties and creation of two pocket parks in the Hungarian Village area of Columbus» South Side.
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