- Lessons in Master Planning
Master planning, especially when it makes use of significant community involvement, is a complex process. In reviewing master-planning projects in six widely varying urban public
spaces, the Urban Parks Institute identifies key elements that make for
success.
- Fundays In Houston's Parks
Parks and Recreation Director William Smith tells about the development of "Funday" events to draw kids and families to neighborhood parks throughout Houston.
- Evaluating Roger Williams Park
Lessons in evaluating parks, observation, and making short and long-term recommendations.
- Design and Management of Greenways
Chuck Flink, Founder of Greenways, Inc. discusses key elements that help the success of greenways, inclding history, form, safety, and stewardship.
- Building Successful Partnerships Between City Parks Departments and Nonprofits
Representatives from the Austin Parks Foundation and the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department discuss the advantages and strategies of partnerships between parks departments and citizens/private organizations.
- How Does a Garden Grow?
Lear's Magazine report on a botanic garden that gives work to individuals, provides food to Meals-on-Wheels, and provides a location where judges can send troubled teens to serve alternative sentences.
- Successful Examples of UPARR Grants
List of Successful Examples of UPARR Grants.
- How Urban Parks Could Become a National Priority
- A New Vision for the Presidio: From Military Post to National Park
Details of plan that tranformed a 1,480-acre former military post from the U.S. Army to the National Park Service - resulting in Presdio
Park.
- Barton Springs and Creek: A Case Study
A case study about
the successful efforts of a coalition of groups to preserve the "Soul of
Austin" - Barton Springs - and its watershed.
- Gateway Parks and Trails Fact Sheet
Emerging from the St. Louis 2004 Parks and Open Space Task Force, Gateway
Parks and Trails 2004 was incorporated in January, 1999. Its purpose is to
oversee the Clean Water, Safe Parks and Community Trails Initiative, a
proposal to create a metropolitan recreation district
- Presidential Speech
Robert Hall's Presidential Speech to the
NRPA.
- Setting Usership Goals
Examples of goals for increasing and
diversifying use, submitted by parks funded by the Wallace-Reader's
Digest Funds' Urban Parks Initiative.
- Critical Success Factors for Riverfront Management
A list of critical success factors for the long-term
operation of
the Hartford Riverfront, as identified by the Ad Hoc Riverfront Council.
- Funds for Flora
A nice page of links to potential funding sources for community gardens. From the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champlain
- Parks Gain Independence with New Facilities and Concessions
In Prince William County, Virginia, a division was established to finance and run park programs, resulting in a wider range of user services and the greater independence of parks from the county budget. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
- Riverside Park and the Riverside Park Fund: A Partnership Encourages Community Participation
A true partnership encourages community use and stewardship over a park on the west side of Manhattan. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
- interviewsandquestionaires
- Relationship Between Capital and Programming Improvements and Park Usership Goals
- Wilkenson: Sponsorship Development Property
Property can be
used to create funding...and how Wilkenson has done this.
- Baltimore Small-Grants Program
Here's an example of Baltimore's small-grants programs and information about how it works.
- Dog Park Dot Com
Yes indeed, it exists, but it's a commercial site with limited utility. They are also compiling a database of dog parks around the US.
- Fun in the Off-Leash Park
A sliding puzzle with a picture of a dog park on it. Not helpful, but extremely distracting.
- Gas Works Park: A Closer Look
March 17 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - The Seattle PI takes a closer look at the history and final round of clean-up for this brownfield turned urban park.
- Liberty State Park Community Survey
Community Survey.
- Liberty State Park Visitor Survey
Visitor survey.
- Local Friends Groups Improve Neighborhoods
A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
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- Philadelphia Green Evaluation
Park-use survey.
- Report and Recommendations from Jeff Coates
Jeff Coates, Manager, GAPS Program, Indy Parks and Recreation program discusses successful parks partnerships.
- February 26 2001
- January 30 2001
- Making Partnership Work: The Central Park Model
- Park Directors Panel: Mary Burns
- Park Directors Panel: Forrest Claypool
- Park Directors Panel: Tupper Thomas
- Leading Change in Complex Institutions
Marc Roberts from the Harvard School of Public Health gives an in-depth guide to taking charge and making change happen.
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- UK-homepage-link
- PPS_test
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- httapa_course
- PPS_publications
- Urban Parks Online User Survey
- Streetscape Amenities
Examples of Bus shelters, newsstands, automatic public toilets information kiosks, and telephones collected by the Municipal Art Society of New York City.
- Project for Public Spaces' Urban Parks Institute Launches Membership Program
October 15 - Project for Public Spaces - After seven years as an initiative of Project for Public Spaces, the Urban Parks Institute expands its activities with a membership program.
- Conducting a System-Wide Park Assessment
Examples and strategies adapted from Portland Parks & Recreation's Parks Assessment Summary.
- What Makes a Successful Place?
- Why Public Spaces Fail
- Member_Organizations
- amenities
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- Park Revival Leads to Neighborhood Rebirth
Once forgotten, the Garfield Park Conservatory is now a thriving destination on Chicago's West Side. How did a deteriorated, seldom-visited Conservatory turn itself into a catalyst for community improvement?
- Fall Events
Take a look at some of the most exciting and original park programming inspired by the Fall season.
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- Place Game Kit
- "Short Reports"
An ongoing listing of briefs on building-related innovations, events, and activities.
- Telephone Interview Guide
A consultant designed these 16 questions for Atlanta, Georgia's Piedmont Park Conservancy, in order to elicit information from the public regarding park improvement plans.
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- A Public Place Audit in Portland, OR
All are invited to particpate in a workshop for visioning the future of the coveted Pioneer Courthouse Square.
- PPS Services
- Resources for PPS Clients
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- donations_new
- membership_new
- What's with all the petunias?
- timeline_intro
- PPS Timeline
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- timeline_new
- groundspring_test
- gps_feature
- Pride of Place (from Governing Magazine)
Fred Kent has spent three decades developing a common-sense approach to streets, buildings and human sociability. Governing Magazine, in April 2005, chose to get a better perspective on Placemaking.
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