PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

This survey, part of the Priority Based Budgeting (PBB) process recently adopted by the City of Joplin, is the citizen engagement portion of PBB which helps ensure that resources are allocated in the best way to meet the needs of citizens. And they're making excellent strides in their work! And the results are in!

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Parks and recreation is vital to community health and well-being. Local park and recreation agencies connect every member of the community to essential programs, services and spaces that enhance quality of life. The Active Parks! Implementation Guide. Related links: Active Parks!

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The Alliance works with NRPA on Commit to Health — our program to increase healthy eating and physical activity during out-of-school time programs managed by park and recreation departments. I don’t have time to change or implement new policies. Wildlife Explorers Parks and Recreation Implementation Guide (and more resources!)

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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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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Greening programs support the systematic upkeep of vacant lots and may include activities such as obtaining professional mowing services or engaging residents to purchase and maintain side lots, mow community lots, plant gardens, or create pocket parks. It has been lightly edited and condensed for the web. In this chapter, Laney A.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 23, 2024

As you may know, January is National Mentoring Month, and all month long, NRPA has been sharing content around how mentoring through parks and recreation is helping youth develop positive connections with trusted and caring adults, which we know can support their long-term success.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Skowera not only sees engagement benefits from offering virtual options, but also environmental and budgetary advantages. Rethink to Boost Participation. Virtual Tools Expand Outreach. “We

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 18, 2019

Commit to Health is NRPA’s program to implement healthy eating and physical activity (HEPA) standards in park and recreation out-of-school time programs. It goes beyond just eating right and exercise, though — it’s all about getting staff and youth to engage and learn about lifelong healthy habits while having fun.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 23, 2020

The August issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode, we’re diving deeper into one of this month’s feature stories, “ Restoring Nature’s Playground.” The importance of community engagement. How park and recreation professionals can pursue similar nature-based or water play projects.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2023

Barnes/For The Washington Post) While pickleball is often played on tennis and basketball courts that have been modified, there are dedicated courts and a rise in the demand for the addition of courts to existing parks for outdoor play, and indoors, in recreation centers. So I started developing such a tool.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

APRIL 9, 2018

The hands-on festivities of the weekend included playing games with robots, flight simulators, going on virtual reality space missions and our personal favorite here at NRPA, designing your own dream park. The highlight of my time at the STEM fest was asking kids if they enjoyed going to their local parks, and seeing their eyes light up.

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

The underused Harbor Park area along the Connecticut River has great potential for residential, commercial and recreational use. Skowera not only sees engagement benefits from offering virtual options, but also environmental and budgetary advantages. Digital platforms need to work with the public’s lives to be inclusive.

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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 19, 2023

My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They deeply and fundamentally understand how to implement and utilize PBB, and their community has benefited tremendously from the city's continued and evolved implementation of PBB. The City of Boulder, Colorado is one of the fiercest proponents of priority based budgeting (PBB) in the nation.

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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

MARCH 21, 2024

The article " Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena ," has an interesting section on a community meeting where people who weren't into the arena concept suggested alternatives. They don't want an arena, they want green roofs. No one spoke in favor of a Sixers arena.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

The answer is doubling down on the value of place in terms of the special amenities that tend to distinguish center cities from the suburbs--walkability, transit, neighborhoods, commercial districts, nightlife, museums and other cultural assets, great public spaces and parks, etc. historic architecture 2. Photo: Green Minneapolis.

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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 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!) I got tired of reading over and over of the displacement of arts groups and the like.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JUNE 16, 2020

Many park and recreation agencies have started implementing educational and awareness programs around substance use disorder, and one of them is the City of Port St. Lucie Parks & Recreation Department in Florida.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Whether through the lens of public health, criminal justice, climate change or who has safe, reliable access to a park in their community, equity is essential. Whether through the lens of public health, criminal justice, climate change or who has safe, reliable access to a park in their community, equity is essential. EDT, and more!

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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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