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A Community Program Is Transforming New York Schoolyards Into Climate-Resilient Spaces

The City Fix

In Brooklyn, one of New York City’s five boroughs, a new schoolyard features newly-planted native trees offering shade and bright playground equipment that sits adjacent to a track and turf field. Colorful murals celebrating the diversity of its Boreum Hill.

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How do you make the ground floor of an arena strengthen the area around it, rather than diminish it? | Philadelphia 76ers

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

If we develop it right, and we include that impactful community program module, we can change the whole brand of Baltimore.” People will speak about Baltimore like, ‘Wow, Baltimore is cutting-edge,’ which is what they said about Camden Yards,” Angelos said. “If is the new standard.