Nancy Powell 🌳🦋🐝🚴🏻♂️🏫
@nanjpowell
@nanpowell.bsky.social. Advocate for beautiful cities and urban landscapes, great public spaces, parks and trails, walkable communities.
Never discount the power that greenery has—on buildings, in between buildings, and lining streets—in positively shaping the perception of our built environment
Wise words from @TUmarkwoods.
Check out this article from Florida Times-Union: Goal for Riverfront Plaza should be to get it right and get it done | Opinion jacksonville.com/story/news/col…
Good morning from my sister’s wonderful garden in Park Ridge (outside Chicago), a wonderful break from the oppressive heat of Florida.
In South Florida, it's not "If you build it, they will come." It's "if you build it with shade, they will come."
New master planned community in NE Florida. Small rights of way, no street trees planted. No one mowing their yards, washing their cars, walking their dogs, or playing ball with their kids. Too hot! #moreshadeplease
Summertime in FL, bearable with a pool and a little shade and a beer on the way.
“Palm trees provide shade” is one thing you hear from people who don’t object to the continued overuse of palm trees in NE FL. It’s 95 degrees in this parking lot today.
The power of SHADE: Two recent local outdoor music events were Jacksonville JazzFest and Memorial Day concert in Memorial Park - both super fun.... and hot! These photos display the inherent value of TREE SHADE, and how we need more of it in our public gathering spaces ☀️😘🌳
More sport insights from the Pope!
In an increasingly digital society, where technology brings distant people closer together, yet often creates distances between those who are physically close, sport proves a valuable and concrete means of bringing individuals together, providing a healthier sense of the body, of…
A Pope who understands athletes!
In our competitive society, where it seems that only the strong and winners deserve to live, sport also teaches us how to lose. It forces us, in learning the art of losing, to confront our fragility, our limitations and our imperfections. It is through the experience of these…
Reconnecting with Providence on day 1 the CNU33 conference. So many preserved historic buildings, and so much new. A lot different than when went to school and lived here 1977-83. More to come!
Imagine, a new stadium that does not look like a space ship.
Chicago Fire announce plans for a mew, privately-funded soccer stadium in The 78 in downtown Chicago, close to their new state-of-the-art training facility. Plans are to have it ready for the 2028 MLS season with construction kicking off this fall. #cf97 #mls
Have you and your family been enjoying Friendship Fountain and the new playground? ⛲️ 🛝 Our @jaxparks team and @riverparksnow want to know what you like and where we can improve. Go to surveymonkey.com/r/7MFK577 and fill out the very brief survey - Thank you for the feedback!
Bay Kings Band at the Memorial Park Memorial Day concert. Another example of how the shade and cooling of our mature oak trees allow people to enjoy the experience! Not one has chosen to sit in the sun.
At the Jax Jazz Fest yesterday, a very hot day in FL, people gravitated to the shade of a few large oak trees in the tailgater lot. If we want people to come to an event, park or business, we need to keep and finding ways to plant more large canopy trees!
Modern infrastructure builders are obsessed with brighter and whiter lighting when the answer is always soft and warm, like here in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station
Which street would you like to walk along in summer?
The difference between a street with an amazing tree canopy and one without is night and day. In NYC, the value of street trees amounts to $122 million annually.