Resources

Resources for Park and Recreation Professionals

With help from our members and research partners, we make the following resources and tools available to equip parks and recreation departments, municipalities, urban design and landscape architecture firms, and advocacy organizations to enhance capacity and build equitable, healthy, and engaged communities.

  • Case Study

    Development Fees and Park Equity in Los Angeles

    Journal of the American Planning Association

    This case study evaluates whether the equity-motivated changes in Los Angeles’ park fees ordinance (known as Quimby) resulted in equity gains.

  • Report

    State of Finance for Nature in Cities 2023: Time to Assess

    United Nations Environment Program, Report authors: Eugénie L. Birch; Mauricio Rodas; Samuel Geldin; Amanda Lloyd

    This report examines the critical need and the challenges and opportunities for Nature-based Solutions in cities.

  • Case Study

    Parks That Protect: Leveraging Waterfronts for Resilient Communities

    Urban Land Institute

    Explores seven leading-edge waterfront park projects from around the world built to protect adjacent neighborhoods from climate threats.

  • Report

    Greenspace in American Cities: How Access to Parks and Nature Can Improve Health and Well-Being

    CityHealth, Beaumont Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Trust for Public Land

    This report highlights disparities in greenspace access and outlines policy solutions that can ensure that all communities have access to public land.

  • Report

    The Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Report

    City Parks Alliance

    This report highlights the physical, mental, and environmental benefits that city parks provide and demonstrates how funds from the LWCF’s Outdoor Recreation L…

  • Report

    Cross-sectional associations of different types of nature exposure with psychotropic, antihypertensive and asthma medication

    Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

    In this cross-sectional study, a higher frequency of green space exposure is thought to be beneficial for human health.

  • Report

    Safety of Women and Girls Consultation Report

    London Legacy Development Corporation

    This report analyses the outcomes of the consultation and provides recommendations to increase the safety and feeling of safety of women and girls.

  • Report

    The COVID-19 Pandemic and Outdoor Recreation: Exploring COVID-19 Induced Changes in Outdoor Recreation Engagement and Behaviour in New Zealand

    Land Environment and People Research Report

    The second of two reports that explores the impacts of the 2020 COVID-19 national lockdown on outdoor recreationists’ in New Zealand.

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