Topic: Parks
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Cracking Down on Yoga in the Park
Lawmakers in D.C. want a cut from instructors hosting fitness classes in public parks.
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What Makes a Public Space Good for Democracy?
The best world capitals to raise a democratic ruckus.
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Fill That Vacant Parking Space With a Rent-a-Tree
A designer in Milan creates mobile mini-parks.
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Olympics 2012
London's Change Games
In the end, the Olympics have helped the city achieve in a decade what might otherwise have taken two or three.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: No Sex In a British Graveyard
Also, Atlanta outlaws smoking in public parks and a Massachusetts town stops feeding the bears (after one licks a human).
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How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain
A break from the bustle of the city can do your mind good, recent research shows.
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Toronto Deputy Mayor Says Downtown Isn't for Families
He argues against requiring developers to build family-friendly units downtown.
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Rankings
The Best City Parks Systems in America
A new ParkScore metric from the Trust for Public Land names San Francisco and Sacramento the nation's best.
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For Landlocked Revitalization, Railyards in Lieu of Waterfronts
How train tracks helped deliver new life to Birmingham, Alabama.
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Can Inactive Landfills Become Assets?
An ancient Roman landfill offers ideas about how our old dumps could be more useful than we realize.
