Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The session, “Neurodiversity and Inclusive Workplaces: Insights from Park and Recreation Professionals,” explored the individual strengths neurodiverse professionals bring to their work and the strategies and accommodations that have helped them succeed, as well as ways to find workplace champions and allies.

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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. Transparency!

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

NRPA’s Resilient Park Access grant program supports the advancement of community-driven, systems-level strategies for equitable park access that improve the environmental resilience and health of communities. Learn more about DaySmart Recreation at daysmartrecreation.com/nrpa.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Young Professional Fellowship provides an opportunity to explore the operation of NRPA and its governing bodies at the NRPA Annual Conference. A primary focus of the program is to inspire future participation and leadership in NRPA and to develop professional contacts in the field of parks and recreation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 15, 2023

In DC, this matters because the National Park Service provides 80% of the parks facilities in the city, complemented by some other government agencies (e.g., It's complicated by the fact that the city parks department doesn't want to take on new responsibilities, so it outsources new facilities to nonprofits. But also schools.

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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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ParkTalk podcast

JANUARY 31, 2024

This episode will highlight park development in 2023 and plans for 2024 as the District continues to add to its outdoor facility inventory and bring new recreation amenities to the community while investing in efficiencies and operational improvements.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MAY 30, 2023

If you are an NRPA member, you may know that NRPA provides exclusive member networks to support your professional needs and development. Tune in to our full conversation below to learn how Colton and Rachel are helping amplify the voices and experiences of young park and recreation professionals.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In less than 40 days, thousands of park and recreation professionals from across the country will gather in Atlanta for the 2024 NRPA Annual Conference. You never know who you’ll meet who is struggling with the same issues or has ideas that would help your operation.” And, if you haven’t already registered, there’s still time.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

WVLSC operates as the statewide land bank for VAD properties, including those that have known or suspected environmental issues, and takes title to those properties to prepare them for redevelopment. 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

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

MARCH 27, 2024

Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The upheaval in the planning agency’s governance has shocked even longtime political observers in a county accustomed to intense development spats. The Council has lost confidence in the Montgomery County Planning Board and accepted these resignations to reset operations,” said Montgomery council president Gabe Albornoz (D-At Large).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 31, 2024

Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

Salt Lake County is a leader in terms of developing co-located functions as part of community facilities. For example, the Millcreek Community Center includes a library, recreation center and senior center, and the food service for seniors is positioned as a cafe open to the public, plus it abuts a small park.

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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. NPS Photo/Stephanie Schneider.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Where Kenmore particularly stands out, is in their commitment to apply PBB not only to their ongoing operations, but to their capital projects as well. He also cited economic development as a top priority for the city with the goal of expanding employment and making the city more vibrant. million will go to the park capital fund.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 16, 2024

Here’s our round-up of five placemaking community engagement examples to draw some inspiration from: Informing Residents of New Precincts in a City Centre Neighbourhood Activity Centre Long-Term Frameworks Community’s collective vision Enhancements for a Park City of Kalgoorlie Boulder | Kal City Centre 1.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

million, and evidently that was too much, and the station wasn't able to successfully compete for donations for operations as well as loan payments, as they faced KUER-FM, the NPR affiliate owned by the University of Utah. (The The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The Incline Railway operates daily, 6am to midnight. This is also cool because it includes an inset on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and a map of the TVA lakes/recreational facilities. Through wide windows and glass roofs, passengers gain startling views of the city and the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River.

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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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A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

As librarians from small-mid-size institutions, we want to provide a volume aimed specifically at libraries found in ACRL’s College Libraries Section (CLS), as they often operate with minimal library staff and smaller budgets. They will also be challenged to explore how these programs can be assessed and recreated at their own institution.

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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

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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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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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

As Chief Operating Officer at Lafayette Habitat for Humanity, we are committed to supporting our local neighborhood organizations by serving as fiscal agents, project managers and community conveners.On Keep reading to meet our 2024-25 cohort of fellows from Lafayette, Louisiana ; Memphis, Tennessee ; and Rochester, New York.

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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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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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