Elk, golden eagles and even some species whose habitats are deemed to be at risk in Canada now have far more room to dwell in the vicinity of Waterton Lakes Countrywide Park.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) says it partnered with the Shoderee Ranch to work out an settlement to defend extra than 4 kilometres of the western riverbank of the Waterton River, as very well as a significant amount of land.

With the new addition, the NCC states it has now conserved somewhere around 75 for each cent of the Waterton Park front focal spot, a region of lands along a 45-kilometre extend on the northeast border of the park.

The group says the lands, which contain 120 hectares of wetlands and riparian parts, 55 hectares of foothills parkland forest and an more 340 hectares of indigenous grasslands, are portion of the winter ranges of elk, bighorn sheep, moose and mule deer.

It also provides essential house for the survival of other species.

“These landscapes give habitat to animals shown under Canada’s Species at Risk Act, these kinds of as western grebe (particular problem) and purple-sided gartersnake, which is listed as delicate in Alberta,” the NCC said in a release.

Whilst some of the land will be preserved in its purely natural state, the NCC suggests the land will also keep on being a performing cattle ranch.

“Waterton Lakes Nationwide Park and NCC’s Waterton Park entrance project is a incredibly distinctive location in Canada where NCC, ranchers, Parks Canada, the area neighborhood, NGOs and other teams have worked jointly to preserve this treasured landscape, though supplying for sustainable ranching and the effectively-getting of all of us. This is certainly a amazing conservation partnership,” reported Tom Lynch-Staunton, regional vice-president with the Mother nature Conservancy of Canada.

The security of land in the place also has a optimistic result on the atmosphere and the h2o cycle in the area.

“The intact riparian zones and wetlands on the Shoderee Ranch and other conservation lands in the Waterton Park Front act as a sponges on the landscape, slowing the movement of water downstream. In periods of drought, they retailer water throughout spring melts and hefty rains, they aid soak up substantially of the excessive. This maintains a constant release of drinking water and retains it from hurrying downstream.”

The challenge was designed attainable with the aid of the federal governing administration, as well as the partnership and shared eyesight of the Flundra household, who owns the Shoderee Ranch.

“We are extremely fortunate to function with NCC in conserving this lovely and prosperous natural landscape, even though guaranteeing my loved ones can keep on sustainably ranching for generations to arrive,” said Kathy Flundra, proprietor of the Shoderee Ranch.

The NCC has shielded far more than 15,400 hectares of land in the region, just one of the major non-public initiatives in the region.
Text description provided by the architects. The project directive was to create a distinct, and memorable urban landscape design that would be recognized world-wide and be on par with the celebrity of Rockefeller Center. Upon arriving, the entry space is conceived as a dense woodland grove of trees that shifts the perspective of being in a building to being immersed in a forest and a The trees’ contiguous lacy canopy reads as a forest. Dappled sunlight dances on the garden’s entry pavement while the four-sided Rockefeller Center building context is disguised and visually erased.
Shaded meandering stone paths wind through the rooftop pavilions which lead to a startling sun filled central lawn expanse. The central lawn panel establishes an axial orientation and organization that references Rockefeller Center’s classical architectural framework. The central lawn draws one’s eye deeper into the garden through a series of stepped stone seat walls and culminates with a crisply trimmed tall Hornbeam hedge. A variety of garden paths lead to the diverse garden destinations. Each path circulates within a distinct landscape typology, yet the sum of its parts comprises a cohesive landscaped composition.
Benefits, Biophilic design – Immediate natural world accessibility and immersion within an unexpected urban environment, Micro-climatic benefits – Increased building thermal and cooling energy efficiencies with intensive living-roof thermal blanket, Substantially increasing urban bio-mass – Mitigating “urban-heat-island effect”, Expansive shade-producing woodland tree canopies improving human comfort levels during summer months, Creating a one-of-a-kind urban landscape experience and memorable place for tenants which enhances an office destination as a desirable and productive workplace, Offering a diversified work, meeting, and social workplace option for the post-pandemic, return-to-office, hybrid work culture, Demonstrating commercial building tenant amenity options and value-added possibilities for building owners of existing structures and for developers planning new commercial space developments
Significant Technical And/Or Site-Specific Challenges, Upholding the Radio City Music Hall stage bulkhead roof access, mechanical, and event/production operational requirements within a shared intricate landscape design, Reconciling a 6-foot level topographic change between east and west buildings’ entries, Sensitivity to historically significant architectural elements and materials.
Science Based Landscape Design, Modeled micro-climatic conditions to measure sun, shade, and wind patterns to inform plant community assignments and introduce landscape features to mitigate harsh seasonal weather conditions. Microclimatic research and its measurement are fundamental to HMWhite’s landscape design process. Previously, the one-of-a-kind software programmed was successfully applied on The New York Times building’s Lobby Garden (conceived as a component of Renzo Piano Design Workshop’s building design) within HMWhite’s collaboration with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Comprehensive parks in small towns generally serve the urban residents within a few kilometers of the park. Parks are generally in an area with a large flow of people in a small town15. However, the geographical blockage indicates that the users of parks in small towns are generally of limited educational level, so the investigation process is more complicated. This study adopts a multimethod design with DPOE (diagnostic post-use evaluation) as the main research method, supplemented by the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and GIS technology, to quantitatively evaluate the current use of comprehensive parks in small cities and towns, and make a decision based on the evaluation results regarding the corresponding optimization and promotion strategy. The research was divided into the following three stages.
Evaluate
Basis of evaluation
Based on the perspective of “human body—movement—space—place—environment”21, stimulation theory and control theory in environmental psychology are used as the main directions for setting up and investigating recreational behaviors. Field investigations were conducted on the current environment, region, culture and other relevant factors of Central Park in Qingkou Town from April to May 2020. The survey covered weekdays, weekends and holidays, sunny/rainy days and mornings and evenings. The main task of the survey was to supervise the development and use of parks in small towns, the number of users, the types of facilities, and the appearance and maintenance of the park22 and to list the problems related to the environment and its ecology, the benefits provided by groups of parks, or the benefits provided to the surrounding enterprises and schools. Especially after the epidemic, residents have had a more active and urgent need for the participation of green space. To cover a wider range of weather and time conditions, data were collected in sequence during the observation period according to a preset scheme for four periods of the day, alternating between two working days and one weekend each week23. Two team members (interviewers) were in contact with tourists at different times in the park from 8 am to 8 pm. In order to minimize selection errors, each respondent was invited to participate in the survey (the targets included adults, children, and adolescents). Elderly people who agreed to participate in the survey were asked about their visit activities and usage behaviors in the park, such as the frequency of visits, distance, and satisfaction with respect to park maintenance, safety, and infrastructure construction24. Finally, the survey requested relevant social demographic information, such as age, highest education level, and marital status (with or without children).
Construction of a performance evaluation index system for comprehensive park landscapes in small towns
The evaluation index of the general applicability of small-town parks was established using a field investigation and the combination of the American landscape performance series (LPS)25. The index system was divided into three levels. The first level was the target level, that is, the evaluation index system of the comprehensive landscape performance of small-town parks. The second level was the criterion level, including environmental performance, health performance and economic performance. As the embodiment of the second level, the three-level index layer mainly includes park construction, infrastructure setting, landscape quality, garden atmosphere, and tourist behavior. Considering the accuracy of comprehensive park evaluation in small towns, the three-level index layer was used to obtain 19 related indexes after expert advice and screening20.
Questionnaire design
Since this study is aimed at parks in small towns and the surrounding residents generally have a low level of education, to obtain more effective data, the questionnaire was in the form of ticking. In terms of content, the questionnaire was divided into two parts. The first part collected basic information about tourists, such as the mode of transportation to the park and visit frequency. Second, there were 19 evaluation index factors. The Likert method was used to evaluate the index26, and the answers each had five levels: very satisfied, satisfied, average, dissatisfied and very dissatisfied.
Combination weight analysis
Some papers in the past ten years have discussed the limitations of the AHP in dealing with the complexity and uncertainty of evaluation indicators and used fuzzy comprehensive evaluation methods to deal with the problem of uncertainty27,28,29,30. However, the fuzzy evaluation method has gradually been eliminated due to its inability to quickly determine the evaluation content31. Therefore, this study used indicator weights for analysis and evaluation. On the basis of the AHP analytic hierarchy process, the coefficient of variation (CV) is added to the weight of each indicator32. The main purpose of adopting this method is to establish a landscape performance evaluation system for Qingkou Central Park, refer to the satisfaction evaluation of tourists through the DPOE, and determine the content that the park needs to be optimized.
Survey
The places where tourists gather or where tourists are the most often have a certain reference significance for the planning and design of parks. Therefore, collecting data on tourist gathering places is needed in the research process33. An increasing number of studies have pointed to the use of social media to examine users’ daily life behaviors and spatial distribution relationships. Wood et al. attempted to evaluate the access rate of entertainment venues based on the location of photos posted on Flickr34. Hamstead et al. use geolocation data from Flickr and Twitter to assess changes in the use of all parks in New York city35. Because the identification system for comprehensive parks in most small towns is not clear, tourists cannot clearly identify a place to visit or a location they often visit. Therefore, the following attempts were made: (1) A total of 182 points of interest of tourists in Qingkou Central Park were collected through Octopus Aata Collector 8, Six-Feet and other software. (2) The distribution of interest points and on-site observations were used to identify five gathering points that cover most of the park landscape. They were named A, B, C, D and E (Table 1) for fixed video recording. The average weekday traffic and weekend traffic information was obtained. (3) The collected data were imported into Excel for sorting, and the utilization of parks was visually expressed in different time periods through GIS. (4) From May to August 2020, 300 copies of paper questionnaires were distributed at nodes A, B, C, D and E. (5) In addition, the questionnaire content was imported into Excel for simple processing, classification and deletion of duplicate data. (6) Finally, the spatial and temporal distribution results and comprehensive evaluation results of tourists in comprehensive parks in small towns were obtained, and optimization suggestions were summarized.
Table 1 Landscape node and application of the Central Park.
Spatial distribution and experience of respondents
The behavior track, gathering area and spatial distribution of tourists in the park affect the evaluation of the park. However, due to the different behavioral habits of tourists, some areas of the park will have a crowd gathering effect36. As a result, the use of environmental resources in the park is uneven, resulting in the waste of environmental resources and ecological damage.
During the study, to make the data more accurate, a total of six samples were randomly selected from three working days and three weekends from May to July 2020 for data collection. The collection method consisted of five people at five important nodes in the park that basically cover the popular areas (including A. Northeast Main Entrance Square, B. Southwest Main Entrance Square, C. West Secondary Entrance Square, D. Sports Theme Square, and E. Waterfront wooden platform); the sites were filmed from 06:00 to 20:00 (fifteen minutes were taken from 06:00–08:00, 08:00–11:00, 11:00–13:00, 13:00–17:00 and 17:00–20:00 for each time period) to record the activity track of tourists in a day. Then, the average weekday samples and weekend samples were averaged, and the data of the flow of people and the length of stay were processed. The flow of people in the different periods of each node of the two samples was sorted using Excel, and coordinate marks were made on the construction drawings according to the image data to screen out repeated and unreasonable data37,38. Then, ArcGIS was used to perform data visualization (scenic spot heat), and the following conclusions could be drawn: there was a significant difference in the stay time of tourists at different nodes (Fig. 2).
Figure 2
Schematic diagram of the flow of people in different times and spaces.
Through node analysis, it was found that tourists stayed in the park for at least 30 min. Compared with the research process, it took approximately 1 h and 10 min to complete the whole track through the Six-Foot app, which showed that tourists stayed in the park for a longer time. Among them, the passenger flow peaks were during 06:00–08:00, 11:00–13:00 and 17:00–20:00, while the passenger flow was lower at other times. In addition, according to observation and survey data summary, passenger flow was not evenly concentrated among the five node areas6. Overall, node A and node B had a large flow of tourists and a longer stay time. Node D was ranked next, while node C and node E had less traffic and shorter stay times.
Overview of respondents
According to the POE field survey and questionnaire survey, 292 valid questionnaires (recovery rate 97.3{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48}) were obtained, among which 58.2{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (169 persons) were female, slightly higher than the 41.8{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (123 persons) that were male. Among them, 40.5{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (118 persons) were carrying children under 8 years old. In terms of age, young people between 30 and 39 years old accounted for 43.7{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (128 people), most of whom carried children, followed by younger people between 19 and 29 years old and young people between 40 and 49 years old, which fully showed that the urban center where the park is located was dominated by young people. Among the visitors, 71.9{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (210 people) were local residents, 18.5{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (54 people) were temporary residents, and 9.6{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (28 people) were foreign tourists. In terms of how people arrived at the park, most of them came by walking (116 people), accounting for 38.9{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48}, followed by electric vehicles and private cars (61 people each), accounting for 21.6{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48}. Among them, 53{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (154 people) chose to come to the park when they were free, and 24{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} (70 people) came to the park three or four times a week. In the park system of this small town, the public green space served the local residents to a large extent and gradually became a recreational place for the real-time entertainment of nearby residents (Table 2).
AHP-CV comprehensive weight analysis
The development of the AHP-CV combined weights has led to a change in the method of determining indicator weights from a single subjectiveness to a comprehensive objectivity39. In order to avoid the evolution of the AHP to a single weighting method, the AHP method is combined with the SW and CV methods here to calculate objective weight, based on the principle of minimum information entropy combining two kinds of weighted information40.
1.
To ensure the reliability of the data, first, check the consistency of the paired comparison matrix:
$$textRC = text IC/textIR$$
If RC < 0.1, the result is acceptable and has the significance of in-depth research.
2.
The CV method of calculating objective weights is a statistical measure of the degree of dispersion of the probability distribution or frequency distribution32, that is, the ratio of the standard deviation to the evaluation mean, expressed as a certain degree of change. This study uses the CV method to calculate objective weights.
Coefficient of variation calculation model:
$$C_i = fracsigma_i mu_i $$
Weight calculation model:
$$W_2i = fracC_i mathop sum nolimits_i = 1^n C_i $$
3.
Combine the obtained weight i with the weight obtained by CV, and the combined weight of each evaluation index adopts the calculation principle of minimum information entropy. The combination of methods makes full use of the AHP and CV methods and solves the uncertainty problem caused by the fuzzy analysis method.
All test methods were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All pilot schemes have been approved by the ethics committee of Fuzhou Municipal government, including any relevant details. Informed consent has been obtained from all participants in the questionnaire and/or their legal guardians (Tables 2, 3).
Table 2 Characteristics of visitors.
Table 3 Qingkou central park evaluation index weight and weight ranking.
CLIFTON — Due to the fact 1994, a 26-acre region that includes this city’s municipal creating, courthouse, police station, and recycling heart has been beautified by the generous contributions of sculptors exhibiting their creations in the out of doors area amongst every single constructing on website.
Taking inspiration from Mercer County’s Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton Township, the sculpture park prefaced the opening of the Clifton Arts Center in 2000, but the sculptures are now thought of portion of the middle.
These grounds were being previously utilized as a quarantine station for hooved animals coming into the United States, and Roxanne Cammilleri, director of the Arts Middle and Sculpture Park, reported the record of this distinct part of Clifton stretches “from the footprints of the animals to the footsteps of the persons.”
Just one of the sculptors who has included to the park around the a long time, Michael Bertelli, first approached its creator, the late Dr. Jerry Raphael, about possibly possessing some of his art bundled.
After Raphael died, Bertelli turned the park’s curator.
He said the Sculpture Park is “a function in progress, and permanently shall be.”
Aspect of that is for the reason that of its pure placing, in the middle of the functions of many city departments that have themselves turn out to be extra influential in its sustainability over time.
“It truly is all about setting, so persons are starting to comprehend how you can recycle your atmosphere, how you can transform your ecosystem, and glimpse at it differently via artwork,” Cammilleri reported.
Map of the Clifton Sculpture Park
Map of the Clifton Sculpture Park (Courtesy of Roxanne Cammilleri)
Following Environment War II, the federal government offered the land to the town, indicating it will go on to be a safeguarded house.
That said, not all the sculptures are everlasting fixtures. Bertelli claimed a single or two are taken down each individual yr, offered again to the artists who loaned them, and two or 3 new ones are installed with the economical aid of the Arts Center’s nonprofit board.
Now the metropolis lists 33 sculptures on display, the operates of just about two dozen creators.
What the shifting roster means is that there is no theme to the Sculpture Park, an eclecticism that Bertelli claimed functions in its favor.
“We get so considerably website traffic likely by means of there, I would guess you can find not a sculpture park in the entire world that sees additional targeted visitors than we do,” he reported. “They’re not all coming to seem at the sculpture, but it’s in their encounter.”
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A master plan based on climate factors. The Central Park is a new 67-hectare public park built on the abandoned site of a former airport northwest of the center of Taichung, a city of 3 million people in central Taiwan. The park is at the heart of a new 256-hectare real estate development. It is a core of nature, planted with nearly 12,000 trees. Due to its topography, its valleys acting as retention basins, it also acts as a sponge for all the rainwater in the new district, preventing flooding and overloading the network. Taichung has a hot, humid, and polluted tropical climate. The ambition of the park is to offer cooler, drier, and less polluted places.
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The formal strategy of the composition of the masterplan is based on climate, cartography, and design of the variations of heat, humidity, and air pollution, like three independent layers which, by superimposing themselves, invent a multitude of microclimates as so many variations of characters, ambiances, giving the aesthetic richness and the diversity of use of the park. The choice of the location of the trees and their species, the nature of the soils, the program, are guided by the climate. Thus, in the coolest places naturally, because they are the most exposed to the cold north wind, we amplify the forest cover to create shade, thus doubling their freshness.
Plan – Climate masterplan
The soils are rich in evaporating grasses or high albedo to amplify the coolness. In locations farthest from humidity sources, we amplify trees with floating roots to reduce their moisture content and the soils are chosen to be particularly draining. In areas far from roads, we increase the number of trees with hairy leaves to reduce air pollution. The program follows the climate: the less polluted areas are used for children’s games, the drier areas for sports activities, and the cooler areas for various leisure programs. The identity of the places comes from the microclimates created.
Heat map planDiagram
Thus the coolest places are called Coolias, the driest Dryias, and the least polluted Clearias, which are distinguished by the predominance of a tree species. Tree planting follows a graded order of composition, from open field to dense forest, gradually amplifying the cooling, drying, and de-pollution effects. Paths follow the climate like isothermal lines. The Cool Path connects all the cooler parts of the park, the Dry Path the drier parts, and the Clear Path the least polluted parts.
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Sensors measuring heat, humidity, and air pollution are placed every 50 meters. The data is then transcribed in the form of a map in real-time, accessible on a smartphone, showing the variations in climatic values throughout the park, making it possible to guide walkers. 10,000 m2 of photovoltaic panels placed like canopies above the park to the north and south, produce all the energy used in the park, which is thus totally carbon neutral.
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Night lighting is dimmed as one moves further away from the roads and gradually shifts from white to orange to preserve the circadian biological cycles of the animals. Our intention is to offer the inhabitants of Taichung a comfortable natural place, encouraging outdoor activities, and the diversity of microclimates allows for use during the 12 months of the year and at any time of the day, between very hot and colder parts, open to everyone’s free will.
A new pocket park in Baltimore will help to ignite a neighborhood revitalization.
On a corner in Baltimore surrounded by vacant tons and boarded-up properties, Gold Road Park is easy to pass up. Constructed on a former coal property in the neighborhood of Druid Heights, the pocket park capabilities a winding brick path that prospects to a round gathering house with a starburst mural at its center. Methods along one edge can be applied as seating or a de facto phase, and the very simple planting plan involves a couple rose bushes and serviceberry trees.
Druid Heights is a historic African American local community that after had a flourishing social scene, in which the jazz great Taxi Calloway sang “Hi De Ho Man” in golf equipment, and where by effectively-to-do Black households elevated their youngsters. In the late 1960s, the uprisings that followed the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination led to a period of time of city disinvestment from which the neighborhood is nonetheless performing to get better. A nearby nonprofit, the Druid Heights Community Growth Company, is using a holistic tactic to revitalization via actual estate progress, food stuff and occupation guidance, and incentives and paths to homeownership.
Among the the limitations struggling with Druid Heights is a absence of eco-friendly space: Tree canopy coverage in the local community is 14 {6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48}, just fifty percent of the city’s normal. To solution this, the neighborhood partnered with Byoung-Suk Kweon, ASLA, an affiliate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Maryland, on a green group learn program that features the growth of the two pocket parks and bigger green corridors and connections.
Gold Avenue Park Program. Picture courtesy College of Maryland Landscape Architecture Studio.
Gold Road Park is one particular of the first this kind of parks to be recognized, a collaborative style by 4 of Kweon’s graduate landscape architecture college students: Jason Poole, Jennifer Ren, and Laura Robinson, who did the primary design, and Vince (Che-Wei) Yi, who did revisions and development drawings. The starburst ground mural is by LaTosha Maddox, the development corporation’s artist in home. “In the beginning, we went out into the local community and to the group conferences and questioned them what they preferred in the space,” Kweon suggests. “We considered they would want a group yard, but they truly wished a good location to sit.” The students’ strategy involves room for a lot more plantings and meditative regions to be developed about time.
“We phased it due to the fact we’re finding out with all the parks,” claims JohnDre Jennings, the housing growth director for the Druid Heights Group Growth Corporation. “Maintenance is a enormous thing that we’re operating by means of. We [realized] you have to have a servicing strategy and it has to be strategic.” In accordance to Kweon, grant funding means in Maryland tend to prioritize setting up community-managed open up spaces versus ongoing routine maintenance. Throughout the avenue from Gold Road Park, quite a few vacant heaps will be redeveloped as Taxi Calloway Legends Park.
Druid Heights Environmentally friendly Group Master Prepare. Graphic courtesy College of Maryland Landscape Architecture Studio.
“[Gold Street Park] is a wonderful illustration of a group-led venture and what can take place when you have a genuinely terrific integration of a good deal of companions,” claims Robinson, now a landscape designer with the nonprofit Community Structure Middle in Hyattsville, Maryland. “There was funding from the town, the Chesapeake Bay Rely on, and other folks, and there was the pro bono layout from the University of Maryland. Even although it was a for a longer period process [2015 to 2021, from conception to construction], I consider it was well worth it. It was so a lot additional own to the community.”
Neighbors gather for the grand opening of Gold Street Park, whose starburst centerpiece symbolizes hope and recovery for a Baltimore community. Picture by Edwin Remsburg.
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