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 * [|Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy] **

Penn - [|http://www.urbanparks08.org] Pittsburgh's parks have been an important part of the city’s Green Story, representing over $60 million in restoration dollars and millions in new construction.
 * The four great and historic parks of Pittsburgh-- Frick, Schenley, Highland and Riverview. Part of the legacy of Pittsburgh’s industrial era, these historic parks comprise over 1600 acres—more than half of the city’s park acreage. A partnership between the City of Pittsburgh and the nonprofit [|Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy] has helped pour nearly $40 million into the city’s four flagship parks. In-depth mobile workshops in the parks will allow participants to dig into the planning, restoration and maintenance of the parks.
 * The Pittsburgh legacy of [|Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.], including visits to new park sites first envisioned in Olmsted’s 1911 Pittsburgh report.
 * The newly-restored [|Point State Park], immediately adjacent to the conference hotel, with Marion Pressley’s renovations to the design work of Ralph Griswold.
 * [|Mellon Square], the first modernist park above a parking garage designed by Simonds and Simonds in the 1950s.
 * Michael Van Valkenburgh’s spectacular [|Allegheny Riverfront Park]. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. first proposed the creation a narrow riverfront park in his 1911 report on Pittsburgh.
 * [|Nine Mile Run], where a 200-million ton slag heap has been transformed into a residential and natural area, adding a 100 acre greenway to Frick Park.

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