Recently, while writing an article about parks conservancies, I had the pleasure of visiting the park systems in Pittsburgh and Louisville, and Prospect Park in Brooklyn to see for myself what can be achieved by augmenting public funding for parks with private dollars. Parks conservancies not only help preserve historic park designs by legendary landscape architects, but also modernize parks for today’s needs, which is particularly improtant in our urban areas.

Click here to read my article as it appears in the May 2007 issue of Urban Land magazine. Parks Conservancies