The difference a Park can make in Chicago and Philadelphia
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Monday, 13 March 2017
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Ms. Wasserman, executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, and then helped lobby the city to the park.
He pointed to where the citizens got the playground, ball fields, Skate Park and community gardens were. The $ 19 million park now than the city-sponsored sports and concerts free. During the warm months, Ms. Wasserman said, who had been arrested in the young citizens from Little Village to help keep an eye on La Villita, disappointing gangs from moving. "The community feels ownership of the place," he said.
Chicago is at the forefront of a growing practice. Him to make major parks and open space, improving the neighborhood of the playgrounds and recreation centers, scooping acres of land disused new green and repurposing large swaths lake formerly industrial. Aided by tax longstanding parks ovaries, these efforts to improve the public space, begun under the former mayor, Richard M. Daley, gathered steam as Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011.
They have met with public resistance to normal from reluctant to finance improvements to city aldermen want the money now allocated for parks, trees and after school programs redirected to violence prevention. The mayor has testily noted that after-school programs and parks, such as La Villita, provide exactly the sort of safe spaces for young people that would help reduce crime.
From Philadelphia to Seattle, and other cities in American Banking on parks and public places to drive social and economic progress. Parks may seem urgent, especially when compared with the latest gangland murder for pandemic; but Chicago effort to improve and optimize their neighborhood by neighborhood, released the long-term rewards. A few of the city's showpieces, like the Riverwalk urban and glamorous Millennium Park, have reaped huge windfalls in the financial capital. Barack Obama's election library Jackson Park promises to be a new major attraction and help rejuvenate that part of the South Side.
Other park projects are making the headlines but also make a difference. I caught up with Mayor Emanuel one afternoon arts and recreation center Ellis Park in Bronzeville, one of the city's historic neighborhoods African-American. The center, on the former Chicago Housing Authority land, it is sunny, bright two-story, big windows and indoor pool state-of-the-art. It is connected by a network of related improve transit, public health and the life on the street in Bronzeville. Like La Villita, between the various dreams long-percolating initiated community, recognized only recently, thanks to the cocktail in support of the mayor helped mix.
"Urban policy tends to focus on a lot of houses," Mr. Emanuel told me, I am focused on what has become the central plank of the not policing or murder rates. "Housing alone does not."
That view shared by Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia, who gets swept into power last year on a platform costing hundreds of millions of dollars to fix up the gaps in about 400 dilapidated green, ball fields, pools, libraries and recreation centers underserved regions. Philadelphia has the highest poverty among the 10 most-populated in the United States. The program focuses on the city's neediest areas.
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