City Parks Alliance Seeks Nominations for “Frontline Parks” Section on Website

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Angelina Horn

“FRONTLINE PARKS” highlights urban parks that are creating economic, environmental and social capital through new kinds of partnerships.  This feature on CPA’s website (www.cityparksalliance.org) promotes inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. Twelve parks – one each month – will be featured on CPA’s website home page in 2012.  Each [...]

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Civic Center and Rotary Centennial Selected as Frontline Parks

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Angelina Horn

Each month, City Parks Alliance recognizes two “Frontline Parks” to promote and highlight inspiring examples of urban park excellence, innovation, and stewardship across the country. The program also seeks to highlight examples of the challenges facing our cities’ parks as a result of shrinking municipal budgets, land use pressures, and urban neighborhood decay. Civic Center Park Civic [...]

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The Nation’s Mayors Seek President’s Continued Support for Land and Water Conservation Fund

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Angelina Horn

50 mayors across the country urged President Obama this week to support federal funding of urban parks and green space as a strategy for creating jobs and driving economic development. Mayors from Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and smaller cities like Bozeman, Montana, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, sent a letter requesting the administration’s continued [...]

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Secrets of the Private Sector: How Parks and Recreation Agencies Can Flex Their Marketing Muscles

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Elissa Hoagland Izmailyan

According to a survey by The Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence, almost half of the nation’s largest park departments do not spend any money on public outreach. Counting those that do, the average amount spent on marketing comes to only 46 cents per resident per year. Is marketing a smart investment [...]

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Can College Attainment in Cities Increase Urban Parkland?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Coleen Gentles

Last week we attended The Raben Group’s policy breakfast with Carol Coletta, president of CEOs for Cities. The purpose of the meeting was to provide an update on the Talent Dividend Prize competition, which will award $1 million in advertising dollars to the city or metro region that shows the greatest improvement in college attainment [...]

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What Attaches People to Place?

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Coleen Gentles

In November the Knight Foundation released findings from their Soul of the Community study, a three-year project aimed to understand resident attachment to place, what drives it and why it matters in 26 U.S. communities. Of the 10 attributes studied, the top three were: Social Offerings – Places for people to meet each other and [...]

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Maps of Tourist Pictures Shows Role of Parks

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Ben Welle

Mapping-extraordinaire Eric Fischer has mapped the pictures taken by local residents versus tourists, and the results reinforce the belief that parks can be major contributors to a city’s tourism. A look through the maps of 60 different cities shows concentrations of web-posted tourist pictures in parks and key public spaces (tourist pictures are in red, [...]

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Research Review: Parks Have Economic Value

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Ben Welle

Active Living Research is out with a synthesis of research showing that communities economically benefit from parks and walkability. The report, entitled The Economic Benefits of Open Space, Recreation Facilities and Walkable Community Design was led by Lilly Shoup of the University of Maryland and Reid Ewing of the University of Utah. For any park [...]

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Recreational Programs a Hot Commodity in Chicago

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Ben Welle

The Chicago Tribune describes the nearly crazed demand for the Chicago Park District’s recreational programming. Th article indicates that a rush to get into classes was happening in “thousands of homes across the city Monday, as parents frantically attempted to get their children into the 10-week spring classes including gymnastics ($47), basketball ($20) and children’s [...]

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Parks as Boosters of City Tourism

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Ben Welle

Sometimes a picture speaks volumes. Here at this blog, we like it when we can use images that say something so we don’t have to. In this case, we just came across the cover of Alaska Airlines magazine, which features an article on San Francisco’s parks. The article (mainly about the city’s parks) isn’t available [...]

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