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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see " Third place issues " (2024) and " Strangers are good for us ," an op-ed by David Sax in the New York Times. They started this as a budget measure in the 1970s (now Harford County, Maryland does something similar too). More places are "allowing" citizens to deliver recreation programming. Conclusion.