Wednesday, May 23, 2012

San francisco public parks

  • As if San Francisco needed another trophy to add to its already impressive mantlepiece, the citys park system has been crowned the best in America among the nations largest cities.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The Trust for Public Land's scorecard and accompanying analysis can be found at parkscore.tpl.org.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • (Reuters) - San Francisco has the best city park system in the United States along with Sacramento, Boston and New York, according to a ranking of the 40 best systems across the country.
  • (Reuters)
  • new ranking of 40 local park systems released by the Trust for Public Land. Using the most comprehensive park rating system ever developed, the trust found that San Francisco has the highest score in terms of park access, size and services and investment.
  • (Reuters)
  • The ranking system gave points to cities whose populations who reported exercising, having health insurance, and biking, walking or taking public having more dog parks, golf courses and tennis courts per capita.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • The Trust for Public Land's ParkScore study ranks parks No city got a perfect score; Sacramento scored 73.5, compared to San Francisco's 74.0. The city's media park size is 5.
  • (The Business Journal)
  • a nonprofit organization that wants more and better public parks in the United States, says Houston isn't doing a great job with its parks and that the city should be more like San Francisco, which came out smelling like a rose it its survey called ParkScore.
  • (Houston Chronicle)
  • San Francisco got the nations number-one ranking. Virtually all of its citizens live within a 10-minute walk of a park. Fresno, however, was last among the 40 cities. The Trust for Public Land gave it only half of a park bench.
  • (KPBS)
  • This project will provide millions of dollars in new tax revenue for San Francisco over the long term for services local residents need, including public safety, parks, public transit, pothole repair, youth programs and senior services.
  • (ESPN)

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