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The Active Communities Tool (ACT): An Action Planning Guide
A guide to improve built environments and promote physical activity, and create a cross-sector action plan consistent with community context.
Parks That Protect: Leveraging Waterfronts for Resilient Communities
Explores seven leading-edge waterfront park projects from around the world built to protect adjacent neighborhoods from climate threats.
Placemaking for an Aging Population: Guidelines for Senior-Friendly Parks
People over age 65 in the U.S. remain highly underserved in regards to parks. This report draws from different sources to understand how parks can be best desi…
A Framework for Assessing Equitable Health Outcomes of Parks
Provides a framework for identifying how park systems improves health outcomes for users and understand how parks address health disparities.
Greenspace in American Cities: How Access to Parks and Nature Can Improve Health and Well-Being
This report highlights disparities in greenspace access and outlines policy solutions that can ensure that all communities have access to public land.
State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2023: Time to Assess
This report examines the critical need and the challenges and opportunities for Nature-based Solutions in cities.
Closing the Gap: Public and Private Funding Strategies for Neighborhood Parks
Public and Private Funding Strategies for Neighborhood Parks
The Common Ground Framework: Building community power through park and green space engagement
This paper explores how parks and green spaces can increase a community’s power, particularly communities of historically excluded groups.
Creative Placemaking Guide
This handy guide outlines the definition of creative placemaking and how it can make for better parks and stronger communities.
Starting A Corps Manual Case Study: The Gulf Coast Restoration Initiative
A step-by-step guide with milestones and benchmarks for those starting their own Corps program from exploratory phase to full operation.
Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles
This case study evaluates whether the equity-motivated changes in Los Angeles’ park fees ordinance (known as Quimby) resulted in equity gains.
The Case for Open Space: Why the Real Estate Industry Should Invest in Parks and Open Spaces
Explores the benefits of private sector involvement in creating, maintaining, operating, and programming parks and open space.
Fundamentals of Funding for Local Parks and Greenspace
TPL’s 10-Minute Walk Program has compiled a list of common funding mechanisms for parks, along with a high-level summary of what they can fund.
Key Park Equity Policies: Toward a 10-Minute Walk Park Equity Policy Framework
This report outlines policy solutions and examples that help create scaled, sustainable change and address the park equity divide.
Reimagining the Civic Commons: Value Capture in the Commons
A resource for organizations grappling with how to sustain operations, reinvest in communities, and ensure equitable access for all.
Ecology for Health: Design Guidance for Fostering Human Health and Biodiversity in Cities
This document provides science-based guidance for designing urban spaces that foster both human health and urban biodiversity.
Greener Parks: Green Infrastructure as a Strategy for Improving Equity and Community Well-Being Advocacy Toolkit
Toolkit gives Park & Rec professionals resources for climate impacts, community health, and advance fair and just access to quality green spaces.
Associations of Greenness, Parks, and Blue Space With Neurodegenerative Disease Hospitalizations Among Older US Adults
A study of Medicare beneficiaries suggests that nature may also help protect against the risk of developing certain neurodegenerative disorders.