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Rebuilding the Parks in Indianapolis

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Developing successful partnerships and a fiscal strategy that better tapped community resources were key ingredients to re-creating Indianapolis' Department of Parks and Recreation. Leon Younger details his work in these areas.
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Reclaiming the Heart of Santa Fe: Parkland Acquisition

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A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
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Boys & Girls Club: Combining Efforts for Local Recreation

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Through an innovative partnership with the Minneapolis Parks Board, the Boys and Girls Club helped raise more than $1.5 million in public and private funds for a new multi-use recreational center.
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Making Partnership Work: The Central Park Model

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Betsy Barlow Rodgers, who founded the Central Park Conservancy and restored the crown jewel in New York City's park system, explains the three P's of partnerships: passion, patience, and persistence. Project for Public Spaces' Urban Parks Institute
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What Role Can Maintenance and Operations Play in Creating Safer Parks?

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Advice and strategies on using maintenance and parks staff to enhance perceptions of security. From Toronto Parks & Recreation's Planning, Designing and Maintaining Safer Parks
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What Role Can Programming Play in Creating Safer Parks?

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Diverse activities and groups of users go a long way toward enhancing perceptions of security in a park. From Toronto Parks & Recreation's Planning, Designing and Maintaining Safer Parks.
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Lessons from 25 Years of OCA

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
Parks directors, artists, politicians, developers, and others reflect on the broad and lasting accomplishments of Providence's Office of Cultural Affairs.
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Putting It All Together: Community-Based Process

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An excerpt from How To Turn A Place Around that suggests ways to motivate people into making a space a community place. Project for Public Spaces
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Management Innovation Results in Cleaner City Playgrounds

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Thanks to quicker detection of problems and the use of welfare workers, New York City's playgrounds are cleaner and their equipment is in better structural condition. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
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Saving Your Piece of the Planet

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | Add Comment
A Citizens' Guide to the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program, published by our partner, Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation, and the Wilderness Society.
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How to Make Brochures

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A primer on brochures, from the Michigan State University Extension.

Marketing Your Community Park and Recreation: Developing Brochures

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Greenway Vision Saves River and Generates Investment

By Project for Public Spaces on Jan 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
An article from the Urban Parks institute chronicling how Denver civic and political leaders organized the reclamation of the South Platte River into a regional greenway system, spurring not only parkland and environmental benefits but also redevelopment of large tracts of industrial land downtown.
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