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Stormwater Management Takes The Field
Many parks, recreation, and athletic facilities serve as community hubs where residents gather to compete, play, socialize, and enjoy the outdoors. These prized community assets can play an even bigger role by incorporating infrastructure to manage stormwater, mitigate flooding, and achieve water-quality goals.
A Symbiotic Relationship
To make cities more resilient, park planners and designers need to look beyond the typical stormwater requirements when thinking about public spaces. How can parks solve larger, community-wide stormwater problems while still accommodating recreational needs?
Green-Roof Design
Green roofs are not new, but they are gaining in popularity in the United States. Over the past 30 years, there has been a steady increase in the application of this technology. Rooftop-garden
An Outpouring Of Opportunities
When the Stark County Park District in Canton, Ohio, in creating a Countywide Trail and Greenway Plan to expand its park system, built a 300-mile network of recreat
Routing Runoff
Imagine that you’ve just prepared a ball field for the big weekend playoff game, and it looks great—the infield dirt is smoothed to perfection, and home plate and the pitcher’s mound are
A Lasting Impression
A 2009 report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program supports what many have recently experienced--rainfall and flooding are on the rise. There is a clear trend toward heavier precipitation in