Recent Auditor General reports exposed deep-rooted inefficiencies and systemic issues in Toronto’s Parks & Recreation (P&R) Division. Despite these challenges, P&R is staffed by many dedicated public ...

The city spends a lot of money at these projects. The 10-year capital budget for the parks, forestry and recreation department is $2.7-billion. The library adds another $565-million by 2033.

M. Paul Friedberg, a landscape architect whose playgrounds, pocket parks and plazas transformed once-gritty areas of New York City, using familiar urban materials to do so, died on Feb. 15 in ...

As those new parks take shape, they present a novel idea about landscape: They scramble the natural and the artificial, and teach us that there’s really no line between the two.

Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect and professor at Peking University, is developing what might seem like a counterintuitive response: Let the water in. “You cannot fight water,” he said.