$250 The average price per square foot of condominiums adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta shortly after the park was completed.   $115 The average price per square foot of those condominiums just before Olympic Park was built.   Read more

As a NRPA board member and also part of higher education, I read with great interest the cover story on the evolution of parks and recreation degree programs (Parks & Recreation, August 2011). Because I lead a major area of Read more

Remember the famous Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant? A group of blind men is assembled and asked to describe an elephant. Each blind man touches a different part of the elephant—a tusk, a side, the trunk, Read more

My mother chose my college major. Not because she was some sort of control freak, but just because I happened to be away from home the week the class registration paperwork arrived in the mail from American University (here I Read more

 Whenever you can connect communities and neighborhoods you get stronger, healthier, and more fun places to live and work. Across the country, we're seeing more and more greenways coming online that bear this out. Here in Northern Virginia, just a Read more