Tag: Playgrounds

Greenspace or Greenwashing? The Making of the I-70 Cover Park

.Reading time 16 minutes.

This is the second post in our May theme month, Cities at Play. By Maggie McNulty On November 30, 2022 at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Interstate 70 (I-70) Cover Park in Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, Governor Jared Polis stated, “This is really a model of innovative solutions, green infrastructure, state of the art technology […]

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The Neighborhood Nuisance: One Woman’s Crusade to Shape Brooklyn

.Reading time 30 minutes.

For our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest, we asked for stories about projects that faced “stumbling blocks.” There were a multitude of them placed in the path of Mabel E. Macomber, a Progressive Era playground advocate, written about by Alexandra Miller in our fifth entry. To see all entries from this year’s contest check out […]

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