It is time for the annual rundown of the predicted top trends in parks and recreation. Eagerly awaited for, these predictions stimulate the anticipatory senses and offer a respite from the winter blues.
How inclusive design, multifunctional features, and the added value of healthier communities are several trends pushing the design of public spaces in new directions.
This July, we’re celebrating A Lifetime of Discovery, and we want to explore all the amazing programs and services your local park and recreation centers offer.
How community activists, nonprofits, crowdfunding partners, and state and city park and recreation agencies are reinvigorating their city.
In November 2017, Indy Parks and Recreation completed a master plan for Riverside Regional Park in Indianapolis. Learn how the 20-year implementation strategy will propel the park into the future.
Explore the difference between Transactional Leadership and Transformational Leadership.
The Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation provides insight on how community partners can work together to transform the city and the lives of its residents, one park at a time.
With proper guidelines and staff training, you can take advantage of all the benefits that social media offers for connecting to citizens, with minimal risk of privacy, copyright and legal concerns.
Keeping older Americans as healthy and active as possible as they age and ensuring the community services they need are organized in a centralized and accessible way are two elements critical for them to successfully age in place.
This past year, many park and recreation agencies experienced some of the greatest challenges they’ve ever faced from natural disasters — hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat waves, drought, hail, ice storms and more.
The Department of Defense (DoD) Warrior Games, a Paralympic-style sports competition for seriously wounded, ill or injured post-9/11 service members and veterans, took place this summer in Chicago, Illinois.
Recognition of the challenges that families experience during the deployment of their loved ones who are in the military led to collaborative research on how participating in Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) activities at Fort Riley, Kansas, can promote resilience in spouses of deployed military members.
New Braunfels, established by a German prince and military officer in the 1840s, might not receive the same amount of attention as larger cities in Texas, but there’s a reason it’s among the top 10 fastest-growing communities in the United States.
There are approximately 1,500 Confederate monuments and statues on battlefields, town greens, in parks and in front of courthouses.
While there is much debate about the causes of atmospheric warming, what matters to us is not so much the cause, but how it affects what we do and what it means for the future.
Whatever their constitution, today’s parks need to be versatile and able to be used for multiple purposes.
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Prince Georges's County, Maryland, students express their love of nature through Get to Know Your Wild Neighbors art contest.
Baltimore’s Hack the Parks initiative encourages crowdsourced solutions to park challenges.
Diving programs offered through military recreation venues provide service members a whole new world to explore.
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More than 1,400 volunteers helped improve Portland, Oregon’s parks during the inaugural Parke Diem event.
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The costs and challenges of marijuana on public lands
A Maryland community takes on public health challenges with a LEED Silver-certified recreation facility.
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A New York City industrial yard-turned-park uses canopies to provide a comfortable recreation haven for the community.
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Military recreation programs keep U.S. service members and their families in fighting shape.
Stay on top of the latest in parks and recreation with this listing of announcements from around the industry.
Stay on top of the latest in parks and recreation with this listing of announcements from around the industry
Public/private park partnership pioneer Dan Biederman is leading the renovation of Military Park in Newark, New Jersey
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A small New York hamlet invests $10 million in a state-of-the-art sprayground for its residents as part of a larger community revitalization effort
A rookie Legislative Forum attendee’s efforts are critical to achieving long-sought NRPA goal
How and why emotional connections with wildlife contributes to effectively managing parks and open space.
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A former abandoned lot in Georgia’s capital city gets new life as a critical component of the municipal flood-control plan.
A group of New Jersey firefighters pays homage to the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting by building one playground in memory of each victim.
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Actively combating staff burnout by promoting wellness programs and civility can make a world of difference for overworked employees.
Volunteers show an outpouring of support for Moore, Oklahoma's tornado-damaged park system.
Stay on top of the latest in parks and recreation with this listing of announcements from around the industry.
