Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We’re thrilled to be joined today by NRPA’s Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Elvis Cordova and NRPA’s Senior Government Affairs Manager Kyle Simpson, to talk about some of NRPA’s key legislative priorities, how you can get involved in our advocacy efforts, and you guessed it — the importance of voting!

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

Employees were scattered across town – pools, camps, parks, and recreation centers many miles away- and I didn’t want to send them another email that gets buried in their inbox. While I’m a certified park nerd (trademark pending), I wouldn’t recommend learning code for developing your intranet. We’ll get to that in a minute.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. Although we talked shop from time to time over the years--never ex parte communication though. has 421 parks. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.” We became friends, not just acquaintances.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

I think that parks, libraries, sustainable mobility programs, and other civic assets are potential touchpoints for civic engagement and participation. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively. And they don't acknowledge civic engagement as an important element of parks practice in their master plans.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Public facing civic assets--libraries, parks, schools, sustainable mobility programs like walking, biking, and transit, Safe Routes to School, public markets, farmers markets, etc. It's an interesting book.

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