Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

LWCF is the most important source of federal funding to create and develop local parks, trails, boat launches, sports fields, and other recreation areas and park infrastructure that enrich our communities. Why the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act such a big deal for local parks and recreation.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Photo: David Jackson, Park Record. An article, " Community Planning Lab projects offer solutions to Summit County’s problems ," in the Park Record discusses Summit County's relatively new Community Planning Lab initiative. The course requires at least three and a half hours of work each week. Citizen engaged planning practice.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

They don’t conform to election cycles. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times. Transformative projects like TransMilenio require long-term “cathedral thinking.” They’re not the work of any single person. They’re like cities themselves: endless, incremental, evolving and collective.

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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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