In the last several decades, the li...

In the last several decades, the list of question at issues that big cities must deal with has grown longer and longer From affordable housing to combined sewer deluges to rampant crime and straitened circumstances the problems are growing worse and their solutions more expensive. Given these ills, providing verdant spaces for urban residents has frequently paled in importance.

still with citizen voices growing louder and studies pointing to the significance of recreation to society and efficacy of parks in revitalizing downtown economies and one's own values, many cities are beginning to re-evaluate antique assumptions. In Portland, Ore.; Boston; Seattle and recently made known York, for example, officials are adopting long-term planning and land-purchase policies, as well as a certain quantity of innovative land-use policies, to render certain the availability of park land for years to approach

"If we want to have a plan of trails and parks, we have to do something now. We cannot