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Front Park\u27s Past and Future
Front Park is a 26-acre urban park in Buffalo, New York. The park entrance is located on Porter Avenue. The park is bounded on the west by interstate 190, on the north by the Peace Bridge truck plaza and on the north by Busti Avenue and the adjacent Columbus Park-Prospect Hill neighborhood. Front Park is part of Buffalo’s Olmsted park system. The park system takes its name from its most prominent original designer, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., a nationally renowned landscape architect who along with his partner, Calvert Vaux, designed parks and park systems across the country, including New York City’s Central Park. Olmsted’s work in New York City garnered the attention of prominent Buffalonians, who hired him to design a park system in 1868. Buffalo’s Olmsted park system was designed over a nearly 50-year period, from 1869 to 1915
Birch Hill Park: A Case Study of Interpretive Planning
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and
Recreation Department is responsible for the planning,
acquisition, development, improvement, and
maintenance of lands and facilities to meet the
community's needs for park and open space lands in
accordance with established standards. 1 Current
department emphasis is on sports facilities and programs.
Some small neighborhood parks and the Growden
Park and Picnic Area are the only significantly
developed areas in which organized sports are not
emphasized.
Birch Hill Park was acquired to expand the
spectrum of recreational resources and opportunities
available to borough residents. Cross-country skiing,
both competitive and recreational, is an important
winter activity, but the area's size and its natural
environment provide for a variety of other uses. The
park has a summer youth camp, and planned developments
will enhance the opportunities for visitors of
all ages to picnic, hike, and study nature.
This paper presents a direct contribution to the
diversification of the borough's recreational program
by highlighting the interpretive resources and opportunities
of the park and by making specific recommendations
for the implementation of an interpretive
program. The interpretive plan proposed here can be
integrated with the comprehensive development planning
for Birch Hill Park now underway at the Parks
and Recreation Department.
Preliminary research for this study was done as a
University of Alaska class project in the spring semester
of 1976. The students in LR 493, Interpretive
Services, developed basic information on the natural
and cultural resources of Birch Hill and its surrounding
region. They also identified policy gaps and
provided general guidance for interpretation in the
park.2 The plan presented here is a fo llow-up to that
work. Additional fieldwork and library research have
been done to supplement the earlier effort, and the
implementation aspects have been made more specific
with regard to the trail and visitor center recommendations.
The process followed in this study is adapted
from Perry J. Brown's Procedures for Developing an
Interpretive Master Plan
Interpreting a Commemorative Landscape: Culp\u27s Hill and Spangler\u27s Spring
Culp\u27s Hill is described as one of the least visited and most under interpreted portions of Gettysburg National Military Park. This paper analyzes some of the sites in the vicinity of Culp\u27s Hill and Spangler\u27s Spring to create a picture of both the fighting on July 2, 1863, and the interactions of veterans and tourists with the area in the years and decades following the Civil War
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Springing Forth Anew: Progress, Preservation, and Park-Building at Roger Williams National Memorial
The process of local preservation, urban renewal, and national park building at Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island, reveals important facets of the urban park idea. In 1958, the Providence Preservation Society and the Providence City Plan Commission jointly released the College Hill Study, which called for renewal of the College Hill neighborhood through preservation of the architecturally significant homes, selective demolition, and the creation of a new National Park Unit dedicated to Providence’s founder, Roger Williams. The new park, established in 1965, went through a lengthy planning process before opening in 1984. The planning process revealed concerns about determining historical authenticity, supporting the revitalized historic district of College Hill, and preventing the park from becoming a haven for undesirable people and activities. Since its opening, the park has grown into a mature green space which is an important part of the civic and cultural life of Providence. The success of this park in fulfilling the goals of its planners and continuing to provide a valued green space for residents demonstrates an achievement that has important implications for ongoing urban park building by the National Park Service
Building Healthy Places with People and for People: Community Engagement for Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Over a 25 year period, residents of the El Sereno community in Los Angeles have opposed efforts of investors seeking to build luxury homes on the area known as Elephant Hill. After years of community organizing—canvassing door to door, developing a broad-based coalition and mobilizing supporters to attend public hearings—residents declared victory after the City Council agreed to settle a lawsuit with the developers by buying the 20-acre site for $6 million to create a future park. Residents are glad that a chunk of one of Los Angeles' last undeveloped hillsides will remain open space in this park poor, working-class Latino community. Opposition efforts reignited in 2004 not only to preserve open space, but also to encourage public safety and counter threats to gentrification. Elva Yañez, the El Sereno resident who led the most recent efforts to preserve Elephant Hill, hailed the settlement as a victory for environmental justice: "After a long and hard fought struggle, the residents of this community have been afforded the environmental protections that are rightfully theirs. We are pleased that this poorly planned project is not moving forward and environmental justice has prevailed." [Contreras & Sanchez, 2009; Yañez, personal communication, 2010
Carlisle Photography Studio Collection - Accession 1712
This collection consists of photographs of the Rock Hill area from the early 20th century taken mostly by Marion Carlisle (1859-1940) who operated the Carlisle photography Studio in Rock Hill SC and several taken by his daughter Ora Lee Carlisle (1902-1969). The photographs include several scenes of the 1901 flood, 1903 train wreck, 1916 flood, and the 1926 tornado that struck Rock Hill. Other scenes include downtown Rock Hill, Main Street, White Street, Hampton Street, Train depot, St. Johns Methodist Church, Kings Mountain Park Monument, Confederate Park, Central School, the Rock Hill Dam, Winthrop College, and several photographs of the Great Falls Dam being built including the lock keepers house (known as the “Rock House”) and an possibly an image of the Great Falls.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2677/thumbnail.jp
Lunchtime walks. The 40 minute hill ascent. John Henry Brookes Building - Headington Hill Park - Morrell Avenue
Leaflet giving directions and a map for a 40 minute circular walk from the Headington campus, Oxford Brookes University. The route is quite hilly and can be a bit muddy. Full walk is 1.93 miles (3.10 km
Review of \u3ci\u3eJulius Seyler and the Blackfeet: An Impressionist at Glacier National Park\u3c/i\u3e by William E. Farr
The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century saw the conclusion of the Great Northern Railway (1893) and the birth of Glacier National Park in Montana (1910), two events so tightly interrelated through the family of railroad tycoon James J. Hill and his son Louis W. Hill that they would come to be automatically associated in the minds of many twentieth-century Americans-especially the prospective middle-class tourists from the metropolitan East who were following the Hills\u27 promotional exhortation to See America First and experience a tamed version of western wilderness at Glacier Park: outdoor adventure and close contact with what was deemed the remnant of a prior era, the Indian included. In the course of these campaigns, Louis Hill engaged a number of visual artists-painters, graphic artists, photographers, and filmmakers- to create lasting and iconic images to be associated with the Park
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