Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

APRIL 4, 2023

April is Earth Month, and all month long, NRPA is celebrating the ways that parks and recreation is a climate hero. I encourage you to check out some of the top ways that park and recreation professionals are creating healthier, more sustainable communities and tackling the world’s toughest climate issues.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

APRIL 18, 2023

All month long, NRPA has been sharing ways that parks and recreation is a climate hero in celebration of Earth Month. This episode is sponsored by Merrell’s "Good things come to those who hike" campaign. history” – causing widespread power outages, damage to homes, businesses, powerlines and trees.

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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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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As a native Washingtonian, a park and rec kid, and a long history of serving the community, Delano Hunter is well suited for the role of director of D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation (DCDPR). government agency dedicated to promoting service as an innovative, sustainable solution to pressing social challenges.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 3, 2023

I think in the US, which is car dominated when it comes to mobility, high numbers of the electorate would vote against sustainable mobility measures--bicycling, transit (some cities vote in favor, others vociferously against), trails (Hamilton County/Cincinnati voted against a trail measure a few years ago), pedestrian improvements.

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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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