Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, I’m thrilled to welcome someone who is taking their advocacy for trans rights across the country. Tune in to our full conversation below to learn more about Cal’s story, how you can follow their run, and how park and recreation professionals can support this important mission.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But, because of the advocacy and outreach from people like you — our listeners and NRPA members — the Great American Outdoors Act had support from both sides of the political aisle and is now officially law. and their favorite parks when they’re home in New Mexico and Pennsylvania, respectfully.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. What does that mean for visitors? ," National Geographic -- " What to Save?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

And they had "parking innovation districts" for awhile, but they were idiosyncratic, not systematic, and had many restrictions. A TMD is the way to go, focusing on everything, not just parking, which is more typical. At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's an issue in Utah too, although more wrt recreational road biking. But I was thinking that there needs to be some highly visible defensive cycling classes in public plazas and parks around the city, to build the understanding of how to cycle more safely. I'm of two minds of this. New cycletrack on 300 West in Salt Lake City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Too many people think biking is recreational or a joke in terms of sustainable mobility. A year or two ago, in Chicago, where there was a CTA closure, a local bike advocacy organization did do a one-day bike bus, but this needs to be done more often. On Capitol Hill in DC, a few yeas ago a "Kidical Mass" group was formed.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties—what some call “ blighted ” properties—is not just a “city” problem. Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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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. has 421 parks. Because I always talked up parks planner David Barth (" David Barth: Rest in Peace "), he even brought him in to do some training and consulting for the County Parks Department.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 18, 2021

The April issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode of the podcast, we’re diving deeper into one of this month’s cover stories, “ Protecting the Land and Its History.” The history of Ho-Chunk Nation and the tribe’s participation in advocacy efforts.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Manuela Barón is a Colombian-American sustainability activist, artist and founder of The Girl Gone Green, which is an inclusive community that fosters social and environmental change and encourages people to live more consciously. Visit ReTread.Merrell.com to give back your well-loved shoes and get $20 off your next order.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

It discusses transportation in terms of the Walking City, Transit (Streetcar) City, Recreational Auto, and Metropolitan City eras and how transportation and land use have been organized in those periods. It's an important book for both land use and transit. This is the basis of the concept of "transportation demand management." Book chapter.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

. -- Last year's blog entry Entrance to national parks is free. Many parks, at all levels: national; state; and local, have events. Interesting that the federal government is on the verge of shutting down (" US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? ," Reuters), which means that parks and open lands close too.

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