(Above) Nasa engineer James Ramsey and Google exec Dan Barasch are hoping to create an underground park in Manhattan, New York, dubbed the Lowline; (Left) The golf course at the Kittitian Hills development on St Kitts will feature organic crops
can take canning classes. The public toilets are in an old chicken coop, along with a few chickens. Values of existing homes have jumped 25 per cent since construction began on the agricultural amenities. If Caribbean leisure development Kittitian Hills on the island of St Kitts is anything to go by, we can expect to see more leisure developments foster- ing the growing interest in community agriculture. This resort, which features a boutique hotel, private villas and restaurants, will open an edible golf course in the summer, believed to be the fi rst in the world. “The largest environmental impact of a normal golf course is the acreage wasted to accommodate the course,” says developer, Val Kempadoo. “The course is built into a farm, so any areas which aren’t tee boxes, greens or fairways are cultivated, planted and harvested, eliminating the wasted space of a normal golf course.” The course is grown and maintained organically and the food harvested will be used for the restaurants. Pick me signs will give golfers the oppor- tunity to sample produce and caddies will explain the different produce being
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UNDERGROUND
The New York Lowline project is the brainchild of NASA engineer James Ramsey and Google marketing executive Dan Barasch.
It aims to create an underground
park out of a Manhattan trolley ter- minal which has been abandoned since 1948. If this sounds gloomy, think again, because solar tech- nology will be used to transmit sunlight underground and will even allow plants and trees to thrive. A pilot park has already been created, funded by a Kickstarter campaign which received the most money ever for an urban design project. During its two week lifes- pan, 11,000 people came to visit. The team would like to get the project up and running by 2018.
grown. The hotel is designing pro- grammes to allow guests to participate in the planting, harvesting and propaga- tion of tropical fruits and vegetables. As the pressure on space in our cit- ies increases, we can expect to see
more creativity and increased use of technology in order to bring disused or redundant spaces into public use. This is partly thanks to the ongo-
ing infl uence of New York’s High Line (see LM 2012 Q1) which transformed an abandoned 1930s elevated rail- way into a linear park. This project was a game changer, sparking thinking across the world about how to revital- ise forgotten spaces and providing the inspiration for the High Line for London competition last year. In the future, more is likely to be made of smaller areas of land, enlist- ing the help of the community to make them into usable spaces. Pocket parks are part of the Mayor of London’s Great Outdoors programme to improve streets, squares, parks, canal and riv- erside spaces to provide oases of calm from the hustle and bustle of the city. The programme is offering grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 to com- munities who want to create their own pocket parks. So far 60 projects have been offered funding. The parks of the future might look dif- ferent from the ones we’re used to, but they’ll hopefully continue to play a vital role in our communities. ●
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