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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. But often planning engagements are constrained in terms of knowledge development and the ability to truly participate.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). There is the related issue of presenting art in spaces of controversy (" Harsh is truth ," National Parks Magazine ).

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Plein Air for the Park is a fundraiser for Grand Teton National Park, where professional artists paint a park scene, and the paintings are sold (" Plein Air in Grand Teton National Park ," Homestead Magazine ). There is the related issue of presenting art in spaces of controversy (" Harsh is truth ," National Parks Magazine ).