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Urban planner, speaker, placemaker and professor of practice. Former NYC Parks Commissioner, Raleigh Chief Planning Officer and AICP & APA President. Passionate about people, planning, parks & public space.

Mitchell Silver

How urban design can deter crime @planetizen.bsky.social flip.it/eGH5XG

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Let’s Get Serious About Fixing Our Sidewalks flip.it/BemFBz

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C – but only if they’re the right type flip.it/rFDVno

How US Cities Are Using Plants to Combat Urban Heat Islands. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Top 10 'Stickiest' Downtowns in the US 1 Detroit 2 Washington, D.C. 3 Boston 4 Seattle 5 Newark, New Jersey 6 Chicago 7 San Francisco 8 #Raleigh, North Carolina 9 Salt Lake City 10 Kansas City, Missouri www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/these-1...

#Raleigh's Dix Park continues to get positive reviews. @Raleighgov @dixpark.bsky.social www.islands.com/2187278/doro...

#Raleigh wants to plant more trees. We can do this! www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Ten extraordinary women making cities work better for everyone. www.planetizen.com/features/137...

Good read. @dixpark in #Raleigh featured. www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/how-4-c...

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Well-designed public spaces and good lighting can prevent crime and make residents feel safer.

How urban design can deter crime

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Frequency and length of visits by city residents make these 10 downtowns stand apart, Gensler says.

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These 10 US cities have the ‘stickiest’ downtowns

Urban parks can boost resilience, improve stormwater management and advance neighborhood equity, strengthening social cohesion in the process, the parks’ developers say.

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How 4 cities are reshaping parks into strategic climate and community infrastructure

Mitchell Silver

Image credits: Pexels Summer in Phoenix. Summer in Chicago. Summer in Houston. The experience across US cities is converging on a common reality: walking outside feels like stepping into an oven. Conc...

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Green Infrastructure: How US Cities Are Using Plants to Combat Dangerous Urban Heat Islands

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A new study has shown that more vegetation is not automatically better.

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C – but only if they’re the right type

They’re a crucial public resource, but cities don’t manage or maintain them well. There is plenty they could be doing.

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Let’s Get Serious About Fixing Our Sidewalks

Raleigh’s tree-planting program was set to begin in the new fiscal year that begins July 1, but the budget does not include any of the $650,000 its first year could cost.

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Raleigh wants to plant 24,000 trees by its 240th birthday. There’s a problem.

Public spaces where people meet, move and build community are some of the last affordable spaces left in a city where so much is priced out.

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Opinion: A city that forgets its parks forgets its people

A new book profiles women leaders shaping the future of modern cities. These are some of their stories.

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Ten extraordinary women making cities work better for everyone

Raleigh is one of the most forward-thinking cities in the United States, and the tumultuous history of this gorgeous urban park is yet another example of that.

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North Carolina's Once-Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital Is Now A Thriving Urban Park In Raleigh - Islands