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Livability Challenge: Indianapolis


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CEOs For Cities:Livability Challenge

Will Rogers,President/CEO

The Trust forPublic Land

Parks for People!


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Nature in the City

Three Principles:

1. The 10-minute walk: Park equity &access for every resident

2. Participatory Design works3. Creating Opportunities: Know whats

possible; leverage what you have


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Parks are the breathing lungs and the beating

hearts of all great cities, and from them come

whispers of peace and joy.

-Seattle Mayor James T. Ronald, 1892


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1. The 10-Minute Walk

No child or resident should be more thana 10-minute walk from a park, garden or

safe, green place to play.

Core principle of TPLs Parks for Peopleprogram for more than a decade

The focus is on the SYSTEM


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Access Is a Serious Problem

As many as 3 in4 city residentsdo not haveaccess today toa nearby park,playground, or

open space Those who need

it most oftenhave leastaccess


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Base Map

Population

Density

Income

Age:

Children

Ethnicity

Gap Analysis

Park Need Criteria Layers:


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Park Needs Analysis San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles


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PLANYC


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PS 38, New York City, NY


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3. CREATING OPPORTUNITIES:

Develop a menu of whats possible:Big Transformative Ideas from other

cities

Each city is unique: identify andleverage your natural and man-madeinfrastructure:

Restore Reuse Repurpose -

Reinvent


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The Confluence Greenway, St. Louis


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Waterplace Park, Providence, RI


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Atlanta Beltline:

22 mile loop

through45

neighborhoods

with hundreds

of acres of new

parks


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New York High Line


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Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago


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Post Office Square, Boston


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Millenium Park - Before


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Millenium Park - After


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FormerScripto pen

factory

Martin Luther

King National

Historic

District


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Martin Luther King, Jr, National Historic

District


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Vacant Lot - Before


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After


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Community Garden, Oakland


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6th St. & Ave. B Community Garden,

NYC


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Creston Avenue Playground, Bronx,

NY


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Los Angeles Fitness Zone


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Los Angeles Fitness Zone


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Green Alleys, Los Angeles


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Before - Bellwood Quarry


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Proposed - Westside Park


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Cahuenga Peak: Urban wildlands


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Saving Cahuenga Peak


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Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle


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Another way to think about The LivabilityChallenge:

How to use art, design and nature to makeour cities and communities not just livable,

but lovable!

At the core of our work is relationship relationship with the land, with nature and

with each other.

-Pualani Kanahele, Hawaiian elder

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