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Natural infrastructure is our nature-powered life support system. It is nature made visible and functional in all environments. Natural infrastructure extends from city gardens to rural agricultural lands, urban tree canopy to forest preserves, urban bio-swales to dynamic river systems. Nature’s working systems—water, air, plants, and soils—support life, promote health, and shape culture. With communities looking to new ways to partner with nature, engaging nature’s processes in design is at the heart of sustainability. The vitality of our communities depends on how well we bring together our human and natural systems.
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Cesar Chavez Park
Seattle, Washington
Sea-Mar Community Health Center
Located in the heart of South Park, a predominately Hispanic neighborhood, Cesar Chavez Park is dedicated to its namesake—a champion of human rights and environmental justice. more
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Denver Commons Park
Denver, Colorado
City of Denver, Department of Parks
Denver Commons Park is the centerpiece of Denver’s riverfront park system, and a key link in a 10.5-mile river greenway. more
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Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park
Renton, Washington
City of Renton Parks Division
This popular legacy waterfront park reclaims a mile-long stretch of industry-degraded shoreline at the south end of Lake Washington for nature and public enjoyment. more
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Ice Age Floods Interpretive Plan
Columbia River Basin and the Willamette Valley
National Park Service and the United States Congress
The Ice Age Floods Interpretive Plan explored several approaches to telling the story of the cataclysmic floods that formed much of the Pacific Northwest as we know it today. more
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Jefferson Memorial Forest
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government
This nature preserve on the southern fringe of greater metropolitan Louisville encompasses one of the largest urban forests in the United States. Jones & Jones prepared a comprehensive master plan to guide the forest's future improvements and stewardship.more
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Lake Forest Park—The Legacy 100-Year Vision
Lake Forest Park, Washington
City of Lake Forest Park
Natural infrastructure is the foundation of this 100-year visionfor the city's parks and open space. It is the first municipal"green infrastructure" plan in Washington State. more
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LAKE ROOSEVELT SHORELINE MANAGEMENT PLAN
NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area provides visitors with a unique recreation experience in the dramatic eastern Washington landscape of the Ice Age floods. Jones & Jones prepared a Shoreline Management Plan for equitable public access, improved facilities, and adaptations to changing water levels of the reservoir. more
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McCormick Village Park
Port Orchard, Washginton
City of Port Orchard
Our master plan for this park in a newly annexed section of Port Orchard blends nature, community and art. more
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Mercer Slough Nature Park
Bellevue, Washington
City of Bellevue, Department of Parks and Recreation
Within view of high-rise office towers, the Mercer Slough Nature Park is home to more than 100 bird species and several dozen mammal species. more
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Mt. Baker Ridge Viewpoint
Seattle, Washginton
Mt. Baker Community Club
Located at the top of Mount Baker Ridge, the Viewpoint Park is a gathering place of steel, stone, and curving walls at the heart of the community. more
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Newcastle Beach Park
Bellevue, Washington
City of Bellevue Parks and Recreation Department
This popular beach park was created on one of the last undeveloped stretches of Bellevue's Lake Washington shoreline. An elegant and rhythmic design blends public recreation areas within preserved and restored natural shoreline and uplands. more
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Oxbow Park
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Parks and Recreation
Oxbow Park is the result of a grassroots initiative to develop a community park in keeping with the industrial-artistic character of Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. more
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Paynes Prairie Sweetwater Park
Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville Regional Utilities and the City of Gainesville
To restore the historic hydrology of northern Paynes Prairie, the City of Gainesville is constructing a large wetland ecosystem that will purify the city's stormwater runoff before releasing it as sheetflow to the prairie. more
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Rattlesnake Lake Recreation Area
Cedar Falls, Washington
Seattle Water Department: Watersheds and Environmental Services
Located on the edge of the 90,000-acre Cedar River Watershed preserve, Rattlesnake Lake is the primary public recreation area provided by Seattle's water utility. more
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Vancouver Land Bridge
Vancouver, Washington
The Confluence Project, National Park Service, City of Vancouver and Washington State Department of Transportation
The Vancouver Land Bridge reconnects historic Fort Vancouver to the city's Columbia River waterfront and helps restore the natural landscape continuum from upland prairie to river edge. more
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Washington Parks Sound-Friendly Vision Plan
Des Moines, Belfair, and Coupeville, Washington
Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission
Burgeoning development around the Puget Sound has put a strain on the estuary's ecosystems and habitats. As part of the Governor's Puget Sound Initiative, state parks were identified as ideal places to showcase how to care for the Sound. more
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Yosemite Valley Development Concept Plan
Yosemite National Park, California
National Park Service
Yosemite Valley has undergone considerable developmnet over the past century without comprehensive land planning. Jones & Jones looked at a broad range of issues to create a conceptual master plan addressing visitor amenities and services, circulation, operations and maintenance, and ecological function. more