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
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
Austin Adopt-a-Park Program: Technical Assistance Panel Report
Urban Land Institute Cohort for Park Equity
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Austin, as part of the ULI Cohort for Park Equity, convened a panel of experts to examine equity issues as they relate to the city’s…
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.
Report
COVID-19 and Greenspace Use Survey Findings
Data and Evidence subgroup of the Environment and Spaces for Public Health Partnership Group
This report provides an overview of findings from surveys looking at visits to and use of greenspace during the pandemic.
Plan
ASLA Climate Action Field Guide for practitioners
American Society of Landscape Architects
This Field Guide supports the three topics of the ASLA Climate Action Plan: Practice, Equity, and Advocacy.
Report
WHO-Green and New Evidence and Perspectives for Action Blue Spaces and Mental Health
World Health Organization
This report presents the results of two systematic reviews on types and characteristics of green and blue spaces and mental health.