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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.
Water Rising: Equitable Approaches to Urban Flooding
Report highlights cities that experienced flooding, summarizes context of climate change, describes priority actions for equitable resilience.
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.
Creative Placemaking Guide
This handy guide outlines the definition of creative placemaking and how it can make for better parks and stronger communities.
The Common Ground Framework: Building community power through park and green space engagement
This paper explores how parks and green spaces can increase a communityโs power, particularly communities of historically excluded groups.
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 Angelesโ 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.
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.
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.
Privacy Policy
City Parks Alliance, an independent, nationwide membership organization, endeavors to protect your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy addresses City Parks Aโฆ
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outdoor Recreation: Exploring COVID-19 Induced Changes in Outdoor Recreation Engagement and Behaviour in New Zealand
The second of two reports that explores the impacts of the 2020 COVID-19 national lockdown on outdoor recreationistsโ in New Zealand.
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.
What Makes Parks Safe?
This research report promotes the use of parks by women and girls, by understanding and responding to the barriers to feeling safe.
COVID-19 and Greenspace Use Survey Findings
This report provides an overview of findings from surveys looking at visits to and use of greenspace during the pandemic.
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.
2020 Menino Survey of Mayors
Mayors have had to deal with COVID-19โs consequences and its impact on their cities' future. Between June and August 2020 this Survey asked 130 mayors about thโฆ
Fundamentals of Funding for Local Parks and Greenspace
TPLโs 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.