Centers for Leadership

• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development: Land Use Planning Strategies "Greenways are linear open spaces that help preserve and restore the natural systems within and connecting cities, suburbs, and rural areas." This web site leads to major organizations, articles, history and practical support for the greenway movement.
• The National Park Service - People and Partners "Greenways--those "long skinny parks"--have emerged as key connectors in the park systems of the nation's metropolitan areas. For example, an integral part of Chattanooga, Tennessee's nationally recognized renaissance was the creation of a greenway system, developed over six years with Park Service assistance. By early 1995, 22 partners (ranging from national corporations and agencies to local governments and foundations) had contributed $2.9 million to establish a regional network of streamside trails, bike paths, and connecting natural areas.
• National Bicycle Greenway (NBG) - working to gather and coordinate the resources needed to create and maintain a coast-to-coast network of multi-use transportation and recreational bicycle trails. Site includes a bicycle route directory and numerous related greenway links.
• Urban Parks Online, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Urban Parks Institute, William Kornblum Chairman, Center for Urban Research.

Concepts and Planning

• Sustainable land-use patterns in rural and urban areas, an essay in state and inter-state planning.
• Greenways, Inc. - planning, design and consulting focusing in greenways, alternative transportation, rails-to-trails, open space and park planning.

 

 

Key articles from the Stormwater Bibliography

• Rose, Robert L. "The Urban Conscience Turns to the Environment." American Forests (July/August 1988): 17-20. "Our need for outdoor recreation where we live and work is spurring support for parks, trails, greenways, and new ideas. Urban or 'backyard' forests will become increasingly special. Americans have grown weary of tourist traps and homogenization. The concept of urban and community forestry, forged by AFA in the 1970's, may address recreation needs of the greater public better than any other single local or national program."
• Grove, Noel. "Greenways - Paths to the Future." National Geographic (June 1990): 77-98. "Verdant corridors are snaking across America, connecting parklands and inviting our urban population outdoors. Called greenways, they aim at improving recreation, aiding wildlife migration, and protecting scenic regions. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Washington, D.C., where commuters are only a tree line away from bumper-to-bumper traffic, is a 19th century artery become a 20th century greenway."
• Brown, Chris. "Pathways of Progress." Urban Forests, June/July 1993, 5. The notion that green connectors are important functional elements of urban forests for recreation, transportation, and biological purposes has come of age. The trends include an effort to connect existing greenways to each other, to use greenways as transportation corridors and the involvement in federal agencies along with local agencies.
• Stormwater Bibliography

Examples

• Huron River Greenway - a specific example that extends from Huron, on Lake Erie, in Erie County, Ohio to Norwalk in Huron County, Ohio, with links to other greenway projects.
• Johnson Creek Corridor Plan - an example of a greenway project with information about this new urban greenway project. Issues include flood control and management, recreation conservation and economic development.