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. Transparency!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

To riff off this, there are five other elements at a minimum that matter a lot, that cities aren't budgeting or planning for, if their central business districts become meccas for housing: public safety. Parks, recreation centers, libraries. Usually cities have parks and libraries in the core. schools (and daycare).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

It's in NYC, so of course it's larger than the project in other cities (" Inwood development with public library and 100% affordable housing opens ," 6sqft). In " Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC ," last year I wrote about a proposal to rebuild the Chevy Chase Community Center to include affordable housing.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. Where do you belong in your organization? Who do you report to? We are involved in strategic planning.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, land banks in New York are: Expanding the Production of Affordable Housing. By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York. What the heck is a land bank ?” I wondered.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

A problem on Market East and in Philadelphia, they said, is the city government only contemplates the future in response to developers’ wishes. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. The goal was to identify the most compelling suggestions and generate renderings and cost estimates. No one spoke in favor of a Sixers arena.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Also, due to the large investment of funding and labor required for traditional modeling and mapping methods, analysis may not account for current infrastructure and impervious development. To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. The 1% and 0.2%

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. My background in planning, including parks planning, provides a knowledge base they didn't have access to before. Still, there is tension between being more active or more passive.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 8, 2024

While park master plans tend to not reference built environment and landscape architectural history, the reality is that architectural historians do this kind of evaluation all the time, publish books and reports, etc. about parks and designers like Olmsted. about parks and designers like Olmsted. Park architecture and design.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Creating state-wide and regional history networks for African-American cultural interpretation. One of the problems with creating African-American history museums is that while it is supported politically, once a museum is created they tend to not be well patronized. Many have had serious budget problems. In fact, DC should participate too.)

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Across the country, small and rural communities grapple with economic challenges and an aging housing stock that leads to similar outcomes: a flood of VAD properties that threaten the health, safety, and resilience of these residents. To account for these limitations, we’re seeing land banks step in as the property developer.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

The effort was sparked by Park Bank, a locally focused community bank (" It shouldn't be a surprise that big banks are more comfortable dealing with large businesses | Community banking "), and its community development corporation which was doing a lot of housing rehabilitation. Pullman is distressed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

For example the Salt Lake City park master plan, ReImagine Nature , does discuss programming and activation. Still, a majority of parks master plans don't address these items in a systematic enough way. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Not so much public art. Seasonality.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today we had a ribbon cutting for the new Fabian Lakeside Pavilion at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake, where I am on the board. The Park is about 70 years old, a regional park, and unusually, owned by the City and County jointly but overseen by an independent board. One of seven pavilions, they are about 60 years old.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This entry became very long, so I broke it up. This entry became very long, so I broke it up. There are plenty of posts I don't remember writing!) Arts-based revitalization A focus on arts-based revitalization grew out of my interest in historic preservation "as a cultural resource," as one cultural element of many in a community.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Solidification of Hybrid Engagement Staged Engagement Community Development and Going Beyond the Project Participatory Budgeting The Initial Adoption of AI in Community Engagement 1. Before we look forward and reveal our predictions for the top 2024 trends in online community engagement, let’s look back.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

A big point I make with bicycling is that given the automobile dependency that's been fostered on the US given the predominate land use and transportation development paradigm, is that people have to be assisted in making the shift from driving to mostly bicycling. Building infrastructure isn't enough. Mass/Place/District 1.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The second cohort of the county's Community Planning Lab wrapped up last month after the class spent weeks learning about urban development and design, planning and zoning, public engagement, affordable housing, transportation, land use and more. Photo: David Jackson, Park Record. Citizen engaged planning practice.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

After the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, the latter picked up the naming rights for the arena. The arena and revitalization of the East End. Because downtown D.C. has come back to life. Because Chinatown has a Metro stop and virtually all of the neighborhoods around Metro stops are thriving with or without a Verizon Center.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

Housing Market Needs 5.5 Most economists predict prices will fall some (" Moody's: Home prices to fall in these 210 housing markets—while these 204 markets will go higher ," Fortune ). Amenities as a factor in housing choice. We still have the supply deficit and private equity participation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

Elizabeths campus ," 2018 -- " Part three: the potential for donations around an expanded program ," 2018 -- " Update on DC's plans to build a new United Medical Center ," 2018 I argue that "a building" isn't enough, you have to have a plan to address health inequities in innovative and novel ways. Plan + program + building.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

A commitment to the development and production of a broad, comprehensive, visionary, and detailed revitalization plan/s (Bilbao, Hamburg, Liverpool); the creation of innovative and successful implementation organizations , with representatives from the public sector and private firms, to carry out the program. TransMilenio bus routes.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Students, parents, and teachers participating in a clean up of the school grounds, Wasatch Elementary School, Salt Lake. Schools as fundamental neighborhood anchors. Schools with high income demographics tend to do much better than those with low income demographics. Special Funding. Melina Mara/The Washington Post) 3.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

an urban design dating from the walking and transit city eras of urban development, therefore supporting walkability, transit, and biking 3. I argue that a lot of urban policy was developed when cities where losing population and stabilization was the primary goal, staunching outmigration. historic architecture 2.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

But even before that I went back and forth on it. Was it merely DC trying to copy other unusual creative infrastructure endeavors (at the same time there was an attempt to create a similar bridge in London, under then Mayor Boris Johnson, " An absurd vanity project for our age – Boris Johnson’s garden bridge ," Guardian ). I'd say yes.

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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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Freeways do go under the National Mall, and Capitol Crossing, a real estate development, has decked I-395 at Massachusetts. There are a number of freeway deck parks around the country, dating to the 1970s in Seattle. Klyde Warren Park in Dallas opened in 2012. They are working to extend the park in a second phase.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

My work in Baltimore County also led to the development of my "Signature Streets" concept, as a way of unifying thinking about streets, mobility, and aesthetics, not just in counties but in cities too. By focusing on key concepts that "I've developed" here's a list. I have more than 1,000 entries on this topic.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The URL is long because at the time I didn't appreciate the need for brevity. I have over 12,000 entries. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. While many are photos, and some are reprints, the fact is that the ouevre is a few million words in all likelihood. And images.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We developed the project, managed logistics, and engaged volunteers from different sectors to complete the projects submitted by local nonprofit organizations. CRF equips fellows to better advocate for and lead change that improves vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties through creative placemaking.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

That writing was spurred by parks specifically, and how during federal shutdowns, national parks close, and these parks are often fundamental economic drivers for local communities. From the article: The Trump administrations freeze on federal grants sent a shudder through nonprofits.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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