Parks & Public Space : Features

"Kidical Mass," the biking movement for kids and their parents, is active in the District. We sat down with the D.C. chapter's founder for a Q&A session about bikes and safer streets.

The foundation educates youth and young adults while improving Kingman Island for future generations.

The ice slide at the G8WAY Pavilion on the St Elizabeths campus has the potential to be much more than just a slide.

An alternative paving material called Flexi-Pave is being piloted by DDOT and appears to be a solution to a long list of infrastructure challenges in D.C., including the age-old war between tree roots and sidewalks.

Read on for a roundup of some of the hidden—yet open to the public—gems tucked away at local universities, and make time to explore one or more in 2014.

All over the world, public art enlivens streetscapes, challenges assumptions, and adds color to our lives.

We asked three figures in the art scene to tell us their favorite works of public art in the District. Then, we hope you'll tell us ours.

A $300,000 grant from ArtPlace America will fund a competition to design the next generation of playground for D.C. spaces, where off-the-shelf slides and swings give way to art like you can't imagine.

Albus Cavus's Open Walls Project makes a vibrant case for the benefits of legal street art.

At Yards Park, one of D.C.'s newest parks, a unique public-private partnership keeps the fun going.

When Chuck Baxter moved to Shaw, his neighborhood playground was a "pit." Twenty years and countless pieces of art later, Shaw's looking pretty good. Here's our Q&A with this trashy artist.