Park Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2024

Viktor Meier is the cofounder and CEO of Glice®, a revolutionary company that has developed synthetic ice for a more sustainable ice skating experience. Impact on Parks:Discover how Glice® enables park systems in varying climates to introduce new recreational activities sustainably.

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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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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. We’ll get to that in a minute.

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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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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MARCH 4, 2025

The agency awarded $3 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) grants to help regions build back better, create good jobs, and shore up travel, tourism and outdoor recreation sectors that were hard hit by the COVID-10 pandemic. EDA is a federal agency within the U.S.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 10, 2023

On today’s episode, we discuss a comprehensive and unique professional development program focusing on proven revenue management and development techniques for park and recreation professionals. Here at NRPA, we are big proponents of continuous learning and professional development.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

On today’s show, we’re talking about one of NRPA’s Top Trends in Parks and Recreation for 2019: The prediction that park and recreation recycling programs may soon end. Tune in to the show to find out how.

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Park Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

” Phil Gaines and I had the chance to record an episode together while attending the 2023 State Park Director’s Conference at the Mormon State Historic Site in Genoa, Nevada. There are challenges in parks nationwide, with the top concern being recruitment and retention of employees.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 29, 2020

On this bonus episode of the podcast, we’re going to be diving deeper into one of the feature stories from the November issue of Parks & Recreation magazine, titled, “A New Approach to Parks and Recreation System Planning.” David Barth is no stranger to park and recreation planning.

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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

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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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Our guest today is someone who Christina and I have both been a fan of when it comes to producing really valuable, easy-to-digest content as it relates to sustainability and just being more environmentally conscious overall. If you follow NRPA on social media, you likely already know Christina High.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Merrell is calling for industry leaders — including local park and recreation professionals — to help. Fund green spaces in urban areas to improve recreational areas closer to home. When most people think of the outdoors, their associations are primarily positive. Happiness, relaxation and calmness all come to mind.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JANUARY 23, 2020

The February issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and we recently had the opportunity to chat with Jamie Sabbach about her article, “ Leading With Courage ,” for this month’s bonus episode. We also chat about why good leadership is essential to the smart growth and sustainability of a park and recreation agency.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Manuela Barón is a Colombian-American sustainability activist, artist and founder of The Girl Gone Green, which is an inclusive community that fosters social and environmental change and encourages people to live more consciously. Visit ReTread.Merrell.com to give back your well-loved shoes and get $20 off your next order.

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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. Mike was honored with Merrell’s Changing Nature of Work Award for his critical work in the city of Marion after the 2020 Central Severe Weather-Derecho, known as the “costliest thunderstorm event in U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., One of my points about master planning is that for functional areas: transportation; parks and recreation; culture; etc., WRT solid waste and recycling it's pretty much the same.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 17, 2024

An example might be living in Capitol Hill, DC and riding around on various errands, trips to work, for recreation etc., An example might be living in Capitol Hill, DC and riding around on various errands, trips to work, for recreation etc., Creating "sustainable mobility stores." Building infrastructure isn't enough.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On today's episode of Open Space Radio, we’re joined by Aaron Hipp, an Associate Professor of Community Health and Sustainability at NC State University’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. The study focused on evaluating park use through observation, intercept surveys and community surveys.

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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 25, 2024

I haven't figured out how to write it up, but Salt Lake City and County have invested in a lot of social infrastructure like libraries and recreation centers on the west side, but they haven't been developed in a manner that promotes the development of centers. This is true everywhere, not just in Philadelphia. But it's complicated.

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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 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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The advantage of promoting biking to college students is that they are "impressionable" and it's a good time to develop sustainable behaviors as routine (" College towns of a certain size as an opportunity for sustainable mobility nirvana ," 2018). Scooter parking at Bonneville Elementary School in Salt Lake City.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. I talked about "the back story" of how I was approaching this from my perspective as an urban person committed to smart growth and sustainable mobility, and the lessons I had been learning. has 421 parks.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 2, 2016

." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. And they're making excellent strides in their work! As part of this process, Joplin conducted a citizen survey to collect public input and validate community results. And the results are in!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 2, 2022

It's an issue in Utah too, although more wrt recreational road biking. But I was thinking that there needs to be some highly visible defensive cycling classes in public plazas and parks around the city, to build the understanding of how to cycle more safely. I'm of two minds of this. New cycletrack on 300 West in Salt Lake City.

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Center for Community Progress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (VAD) properties—what some call “ blighted ” properties—is not just a “city” problem. Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Too many people think biking is recreational or a joke in terms of sustainable mobility. Last weekend, a couple bike shops in College Park, Maryland sponsored a ride on the newly expanded Trolley Trail along Rte. On Capitol Hill in DC, a few yeas ago a "Kidical Mass" group was formed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Can e-bikes become sustainable mobility conquests versus the car? The US has a very homogeneous approach to land use and transportation planning. It's not very open to heterogeneity in that everyone is supposed to rely on a car to get around, uses are supposed to be widely distant from each other, etc.

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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 6, 2024

They thought it was transit, it was recreational. Bird launched in Santa Monica, a tourist-beach town, and the scooter users were recreational. -- " What the e-scooter industry hasn't figured out about Santa Monica: It's recreation not transportation ," 2018 Note, ride hailing is a similar issue.

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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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GovLoop

APRIL 16, 2024

National Park Week is April 20-28 — and there are so many ways to celebrate. Take a look at the National Park Service’s main site for National Park Week events , kicking off with waived entrance fees on Saturday, April 20. The nine-day lineup includes days for volunteering, getting to know parks staff, events for kids, and more.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The City of Boulder, Colorado is one of the fiercest proponents of priority based budgeting (PBB) in the nation. 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.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

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

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