Each City Parks Alliance program has clearly defined learning objectives and brings together practitioners across sectors to learn and innovate together. Learn about the different formats for our programs.
Best Practices & Trends • 60-90 Minutes • Panel Format • 100+ attendees
Learn about best practices, successful strategies, tools, and emerging trends in urban parks through real-world examples, and apply lessons learned to your own work.
Interactive Discussions • 90 minutes • Discussion Format • 50-75 attendees
Connect with your peers to candidly discuss the complex issues facing urban park systems. Actively talk about your real-world challenges and successes, brainstorm fresh ideas, swap resources, and gain insights from practitioners across the country.
Intensive Skill-Building • 3 hours • Mix of Presentations and Discussion • 50-75 attendees
Build core skills in this interactive three-hour course, including presentations from parks leaders and breakout discussions. You’ll leave with practical tools and materials to enhance your work in urban parks. Bring your team to have an interdisciplinary discussion and receive group discounts!
Hands-On Learning & Networking • 4 days • 1,200+ attendees
Our biennial Greater & Greener conference brings together practitioners from across the urban parks sector to collaborate, learn, and explore through hands-on experiences both indoors and outdoors within the host city’s park system. The host city serves as a learning lab, fostering learning and dialogue among attendees and local parks and community leaders.
Immersive Urban Park Learning • 2-4 days • ~35 attendees
Park Study Tours are small-group immersive events developed in partnership with host cities. Participants visit local parks, hear from park leaders and their partners, and learn how these special places are designed, programmed, and managed.