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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Who is a farmer? Linguistic insights into agriculture	Sharon Astyk	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag subsidies, food, ag policy, green space, gardening, agriculture, placemaking (all these topics)

Room to Grow Big urban parks sprouting across the U.S.		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 4:47 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Four major cities are poised to create urban parks several times bigger than New York's iconic Central Park, itself a not-at-all-shabby 843 acres. In Orange County, Calif., a portion of a former air station will become a 1,347-acre park; in Memphis, a 4,500-acre former prison farm has been snatched from developers by a conservation easement; Atlanta is trying to add enough parkland to attach nearly every nei ...
Topics: green space, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

The hills What would you build on the land near the iconic Hollywood sign?	Sarah van Schagen	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: green space, Los Angeles, placemaking, public lands (all these topics)

Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park: a preview The park marries art and nature amidst an urban backdrop	Sarah van Schagen	07 Feb 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green space, placemaking, Seattle (all these topics)

Park(ing) Make a parking space into an impromptu public park	David Roberts	22 Sep 2006	Gristmill

Topics: grassroots activism, green space, placemaking (all these topics)

ATLien Invasion Will an Atlanta parks and redevelopment project benefit low-income residents?	Na'Taki Osborne	28 Mar 2006	Soapbox
Atlanta, Ga.: the famous "Hot-lanta" of Southern heat and hospitality, home of "down-home" fried chicken and a growing black middle class, cradle of the largest historically black college community in the world, hotbed of the civil-rights movement, and ... the sprawl capital of the South. As Atlanta gets greener, who will benefit? Photo: iStockphoto. As ...
Topics: environmental justice, Georgia, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl (all these topics)

That'll Anacostia A plan to spruce up D.C.'s Anacostia River has some residents anxious	Ethan Goffman	15 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the southeast corner of Washington, D.C., the capital of the most powerful nation in history, lies a polluted, neglected neighborhood known as Anacostia. Slated for a grand renewal project centered on the local river that gives it its name, the area stands at the juncture of poverty and opportunity. If plans move forward, it will one day be a showcase of urban design, with revi ...
Topics: environmental justice, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, public lands, Washington DC (all these topics)

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