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- What If We Built Our Cities Around Places?
- Great Waterfronts of the World
- Pride of Place
Governing Magazine - Placemaker Profile: Allan Jacobs
Roles: How Nonprofits Work with Public Agencies
- Roles: How Nonprofits Work with Public Agencies
A chapter from Project for Public Spaces' Public Parks, Private Partners, investigating the wide range of relationships and experiences parks nonprofits have with their public partners.
- Partnerships 101
Strengths and weaknesses of public-private partnerships, and information on how private investment can improve parks, from parks consultant Leon Younger.
- Basics of Relationship Building
How to deal with the people who can help you help your park, from Partnership for Parks.
- A Riverfront Runs Through It
An examination of the ground-breaking partnership that has the nonprofit Riverfront Recapture assuming responsibility for riverfront parks in the cities of Hartford and East Hartford, Connecticut.
Parks and Recreation magazine - A Conservancy Rebuilds and Revitalizes Urban Parkland
Susan Rademacher of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, on how the conservancy was formed and its first steps toward restoring and increasing use in Lousiville's parks.
- Local Churches Pitch in to Maintain Indianapolis Parks
A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
- Gulf Coast Trail Nurtured by Strong Marketing Program
The Pinellas Trail was financed before construction was even approved, due to an astute marketing and promotional effort by its founders.
- The Chattanooga Riverpark: Transforming a City and its Economy
How a park helped this once-faded industrial town become one of the most talked-about cities in the Southeast. A Success Story from the Urban Parks Institute.
