Parks and open space enhance livability, reinforce community structure and provide ecological benefits while offering active and passive outdoor areas to gather and interact
‘12 LAKE CLIFF POOL OPENS The largest municipal pool in the south, measuring 425 x 125 feet, holding 3,000,000 gallons of water and accomodating up to 1,500 people at a time
‘76 CITY PARK IS CREATED as Dallas’ first public park near Browder Springs
‘90 LAKE CLIFF IS CREATED Originally called Llewellyn Lake, in the early 1900s, Lake Cliff was the site of Texas’ largest cultural/ amusement complex, featuring carnivals, dance pavillions, three theaters, a large floating pool, and a bathhouse
‘12 KLYDE WARREN PARK a 5.2 acres deck park over Woodall Rodgers to open in late 2012
‘94 PIONEER PLAZA IS CONSTRUCTED ‘23 DALLAS PARKS SYSTEM consists of 23 parks totaling 3,773 acres
‘03 BACHMAN LAKE is constructed by damming Bachman Creek northwest of Dallas
‘09 MAIN STREET GARDEN PARK 1.75-acre public park located in downtown Dallas is opened
‘76 CITY PARK IS RENAMED Old City Park as Dallas’ first Bicentennial project
‘63 DALLAS PARKS & PUBLIC SWIMMING POOLS are integrated
‘31 LEVEES ARE COMPLETED along the Trinity River floodway. The project totals 26 miles of levees, 4 pumps stations and 3 pressure sewers
‘11 WHITE ROCK LAKE is constructed by damming White Rock Creek east of Dallas
‘40 DEALY PLAZA IS COMPLETED Named for George Dealy (18591946), an early publisher of the Dallas Morning News and an advocate for city planning
‘51 DALLAS PARKS SYSTEM consists of 79 parks totaling 5,785 acres
‘62 DALLAS PARKS SYSTEM consists of 130 parks totaling 13,337 acres
‘72 DALLAS PARKS SYSTEM consists of 187 parks totaling 15,465 acres
‘03 DALLAS BALANCED VISION PLAN was approved by City Council with refinements made in 2004
‘81 THE DALLAS ARBORETUM is opened on the grounds of the former DeGolyer Estate on White Rock Lake
‘12 BELO GARDEN PARK the second in the Downtown Parks Master Plan to be dedicated in the spring
‘00 KATY TRAIL CONSTRUCTION BEGINS along the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad tracks to transformed it into a linear 3.5-mile landscaped pedestrian and bicycle trail system
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Good transportation infrastructure, (including pedestrians, bicycles, transit & autos), centered on an interconnected street network, provides benefits beyond mobility. It balances the needs of all users and serves a multitude of social, recreational, and ecological needs offering an improved physical environment and a variety of economic benefits
Successful integration of building use, scale, mass, pattern and detail protect and reinforce the positive elements that characterize human-scaled and memorable places
1840 50 BUILDINGS
Urban Design Matters
‘36 TEXAS CENTENNIAL & EXPOSITION to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Texas independence from Mexico, takes place in Dallas. Architect, George L Dahl constructs or remodels seventy-seven structures at Fair Park (180 acres) for the occasion
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‘07 DALLAS PARKS SYSTEM consists of 2 parks totaling 136 acres
Growth of a city takes on many forms. It is not just changes in land area or increases in population. The quality and form of growth matters most for building a livable future
GROWTH
PARKS + OPEN SPACE
The art of shaping connections between, people and places. The skillful arrangement and form of parks and open space, buildings, and transportation networks which lead to positive and vibrant communities, neighborhoods, towns, and cities. A collaborative and multi-disciplinary design process concerned with the quality and form of growth and the formation of public space and its interface with the built fabric. It draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the creation of vital places with distinct beauty and identity. Simply put, urban design matters.
‘89 COMMITTEE ON PARKS Created by the mayor to assume the responsibility for all public property
John Neely Bryan Cabin 1845 15 ft 1 story
Dallas County Courthouse “Old Red” 1892 71 ft 5 stories
Wilson Building 1904 110 ft 8 stories
Praetorian Building 1908 190 ft 14 stories
Adolphus Hotel Neiman Marcus 1912 1914 312 ft 93 ft 20 stories 9 stories
Magnolia Building 1922 430 ft 29 stories
Tower Petroleum Building 1931 315 ft 23 stories
‘18 LOVE FIELD AIRPORT originally developed as a military aviation school, becomes a civilian airfield following World War I (19141918).
Mercantile National Bank Building 1943 523 ft 31 stories
‘49 CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY is opened to traffic as the city’s first controlled access highway
Republic Center Tower I 1954 602 ft 36 stories
Sheraton Hotel (Southland Center) 1959 550 ft 42 stories
Republic Center Tower II 1964 598 ft 53 stories
Renaissance Tower 1974 890 ft 56 stories
Hyatt Regency Hotel 1978 343 ft 30 stories
Reunion Tower 1978 560ft 50 stories
Thanksgiving Fountain Comerica JP Morgan Chase Bank of Tower Bank Tower America Plaza Place Bank Tower 1982 1986 1987 1985 1987 645 ft 720 ft 787 ft 921 ft 738 ft 50 stories 72 stories 62 stories 60 stories 55 stories
One Arts Plaza 2007 331 ft 24 stories
‘59 STEMMONS FREEWAY (I-35E) is constructed on land reclaimed from the Trinity floodplain by the construction of the levees
‘09 DART GREEN LINE is opened for passengers ‘89 THE FIRST ELECTRIC STREETCARS appeared on Dallas streets, replacing the original mule-drawn trolleys ‘55 COVERED WOODEN TOLL BRIDGE is erected across the Trinity by Alexander Cockrell
‘73 T&P RAILROAD The Texas & Pacific Railroad is laid along Burleson Ave (renamed Pacific Avenue). The full rail line runs from East to West Coast ‘72 THE FIRST TRAIN OF THE H&TC Railroad (Houston & Texas Central) comes into Dallas and crosses the Trinity River on July, 16, just one mile east of the County Courthouse
‘99 THE FIRST CAR IN DALLAS is driven to town from Terrell by Colonel E.H.R. Green
‘27 LOVE FIELD IS PURCHASED by Dallas to become a municipal airport ‘16 UNION TERMINAL is completed, consolidating six downtown railroad depots
‘33 CORINTH VIADUCT is completed
‘25 STREETCAR FARES INCREASE to seven cents ‘23 AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC SIGNALS are installed. Dallas’ and the nation’s
‘12 HOUSTON STREET VIADUCT is completed, February 22, connecting Oak Cliff and Dallas and purported to be the longest concrete structure in the world
‘23 THE FORNEY TROLLEY LINE begins operations running along the present day Terrell Street. Two lines, the Houston North Shore & Texas Electric, have a twenty-nine mile run between Dallas and Terrell
‘69 WOODALL RODGERS FREEWAY is constructed
‘47 CONSTRUCTION OF CENTRAL EXPWY is begun as Dallas’ first major freeway, 40 years after city planners first proposed the conversion of the H&TC tracks to a traffic thoroughfare ‘42 FORD MOTOR PLANT IS CONVERTED for war-time production, building jeeps and military trucks
‘56 STREET CAR SERVICE ENDS on January 16th. Electric Street cars are abandoned as new motor buses take over their duties
‘96 DART WEST END BUS TRANSFER STATION is constructed
‘69 DALLAS’ LAST REMAINING PASSENGER TRAIN made its last run, and the city was without railroad passenger service for the first time in 97 years. It became the nation’s largest city lacking such a service
‘32 CADIZ VIADUCT is completed
‘96 DART RED AND BLUE LINES are opened
‘74 DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is opened as the world’s largest airport
‘31 COMMERCE VIADUCT is completed spanning the Trinity River ‘30 CONTINENTAL VIADUCT then known as the LamarMcKinney Viaduct, is completed across the Trinity River
‘89 McKINNEY AVENUE TROLLEY service is inaugurated
‘83 DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT (DART) is founded ‘40 FORD PLANT IS OPENED on Grand Avenue, becoming the city’s largest manufacturing interest
‘62 DAILY SERVICE FROM LOVE FIELD to europe is inaugurated ‘54 DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY is constructed
‘70 FORD PLANT OPERATIONS are ceased after thirty years of service (1940-1970)
‘01 TRINITY RAILWAY EXPRESS (TRE) runs between Dallas and Fort Worth
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge 2012 400 ft