The plan is to transform the area into a huge mixed-use development zone, which will include the largest urban park built in Europe in the last 150 years, and then use revenue from home sales rents to pay for the land purchase.
The 80-acre urban park became his first benefaction to the people of Dunfermline.
Researchers found the bracing seaside air had a more positive effect than the countryside or an urban park.
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The Park Service oversees the Park Police, which patrols national parkland in three urban areas: Washington, New York and San Francisco.
The anniversary of London 2012's opening ceremony will be marked with an "urban fete" at the Olympic Park.
And one interesting change in the importance of location is that newly minted graduates of MIT and Harvard want to live and work in an urban environment rather than living in the suburbs and commuting to an office park near a major urban ring road.
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Last December, lines snaked around Huashan when tickets for Urban Simple Life, the park's biannual music-design-food festival, went on sale.
After the Games, the entire Olympic park will be opened up to become one of the largest urban parks created in Europe in more than 150 years.
For urban folks who park on the street, thinking about putting your car in a garage for a few nights.
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Meanwhile, London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics -- despite a rumbling row over costs that shows no sign of abating before the torch is lit and complaints that the project has ridden roughshod over the wishes of local residents and businesses -- will ultimately mean the creation of Europe's largest new urban park in 150 years.
Planning mistakes from the past, such as the Market building on the Green and the Trinity Centre car park, should be redeveloped with high quality contemporary architecture and urban landscaping that contributes to the cityscape, improves connectivity, and conveys civic ambition and pride.
With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
The best vantage point to view the event, which he describes as "the greatest of the cosmos together with the greatest of our urban icons", is on Park Avenue and 34th Street, looking west, he says.
Sandton's latest entrant is The Maslow, a hip, designer offering by the Sun International hotel group that opened at the end of 2012, offering 283 rooms in an urban park setting.
As Meeusen tells it, haphazard development around the park left Disneyland isolated in the middle of an urban area.
Situated about 12 km west of central Hong Kong, the park will be linked to the airport and the urban area by a spur from the existing high-speed rail line to the airport, and by highway and by ferry.
Eco-friendly Philly boasts some 220 miles of bike lanes, good public transportation and the crown jewel of urban parks, 9, 200-acre Fairmount Park.
Along with The Park, a 5.2-acre feat of urban green space atop a freeway (to be completed next year) the bridge will connect Downtown Dallas to its adjacent neighborhoods creating even further distance from its worn-out stereotype of flashing cash and ten-gallons of makeup.
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As Mount Rubavu was deemed unsafe for urban development, it was decided to reforest the hillside and turn it into a recreational park.
In a report released on Wednesday, the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit urban research group, said many of the city's largest projects, from Battery Park City to the revamping of Columbus Circle, have dragged on for years longer than initially projected.
In its 40 years of life, it has turned the Rideau Canal into the world's longest skating rink, planned urban bicycle paths and ski trails in Gatineau Park, and cleared LeBreton Flats, once a timber town and the camping place of lumberjacks and fur-trading voyageurs.
The irony is that the city recently rezoned the presidential library area, but designated it for urban use instead of as green space for a park.
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The event last July was subtitled "New York Reinvented, " and some 150 French and European mayors, urban planners, developers and architects toured such recent local triumphs as the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park and community regeneration projects in the Bronx.
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