Parks and Recreation System Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parks and Recreation System Planning write by David Barth. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Parks and Recreation System Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognized as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalize on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth provides a new, step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Barth first advocates that parks and recreation systems should no longer be regarded as isolated facilities, but as elements of an integrated public realm. Each space should be designed to generate multiple community benefits. Next, he presents a new approach for parks and recreation planning that is integrated into community-wide issues. Chapters outline each step—evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more—necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system. Throughout the book, he describes initiatives that are creating more resilient, sustainable, and engaging parks and recreation facilities, drawing from his experience consulting in more than 100 communities across the U.S. Parks and Recreation System Planning meets the critical need to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive approach for planning parks and recreation systems across the country. This is essential reading for every parks and recreation professional, design professional, and public official who wants their community to thrive.
From Recreation to Re-creation
From Recreation to Re-creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Recreation to Re-creation write by Megan Lewis. This book was released on 2008. From Recreation to Re-creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Parks are more than just playgrounds. This report, from APA's Planning Advisory Service, shows you how to plan for parks that protect wildlife, help manage stormwater, and allow residents to connect with nature.
Urban Green
Urban Green - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Green write by Peter Harnik. This book was released on 2012-07-16. Urban Green available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For years American urban parks fell into decay due to disinvestment, but as cities began to rebound—and evidence of the economic, cultural, and health benefits of parks grew— investment in urban parks swelled. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently cited meeting the growing demand for parks and open space as one of the biggest challenges for urban leaders today. It is now widely agreed that the U.S. needs an ambitious and creative plan to increase urban parklands. Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parks. Peter Harnik first explores the question of why urban parkland is needed and then looks at ways to determine how much is possible and where park investment should go. When presenting the ideas and examples for parkland, he also recommends political practices that help create parks. The book offers many practical solutions, from reusing the land under defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from building trails on abandoned tracks to planting community gardens, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. No strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of realities. But collectively they suggest a path toward making modern cities more beautiful, more sociable, more fun, more ecologically sound, and more successful.
Public Parks
Public Parks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Parks write by Alexander Garvin. This book was released on 2010-11-23. Public Parks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks. Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.
The Politics of Park Design
The Politics of Park Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Park Design write by Galen Cranz. This book was released on 1982. The Politics of Park Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Galen Cranz surveys the rise of the park system from 1850 to the present through 4 stages - the pleasure ground, the reform park, the recreation facility and the open space system.
