At City Parks Alliance, we believe excellent urban park systems are critical infrastructure for equitable, resilient, and thriving cities. We focus on the design, funding, building, programming, operations, and stewardship of parks and how they support related urban systems and public policy goals. Parks today are not just a collection of disparate assets in a […]
Greater & Greener is a conference unlike any other. With nearly as many sessions outside as in, it offers an immersive, energizing, and innovative learning experience focused on the issues that you face daily in your work. It’s a conference for doers from government, nonprofits, and communities who are using the power of parks to […]
On a sunny early-summer day in 2024, a crowd of park leaders and enthusiasts from across North America descended on T. T. Minor Playground in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Seattle. In a flurry of activity, they joined Seattle parks employees to give a makeover to the playground that had become underused and underappreciated, as […]