The Greenway Movement
This web page provides an index of major web links in the Greenway movement:
centers for leadership; concepts and planning and significant examples.
Please let me know of other potential links: houghton@email.wcu.edu.
Centers for Leadership
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Urban Parks Online,
the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Urban Parks Institute, William Kornblum
Chairman, Center for Urban Research.
Concepts and Planning
Examples
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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.
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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.
Page author: Houghton