Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MAY 30, 2023

Joining me is Rachel Smith, a certified park and recreation professional and the operations manager at James City County Parks and Recreation in Virginia, and Colton Patak, the program supervisor at City of Mason in Ohio.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

For example the Salt Lake City park master plan, ReImagine Nature , does discuss programming and activation. Still, a majority of parks master plans don't address these items in a systematic enough way. The park allows all community members to enjoy the space simultaneously. Sugar House Park, Salt Lake City. Seasonality.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 15, 2022

With around 65,000 people around the world supporting the quality of life for United States Armed Forces personnel and their families, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (or MWR) — a.k.a. Army; and Kiersten Warren, the outdoor recreation business manager for Air Force Services.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Women’s History Month starts next month, and we thought it would be a good time to tackle a topic that has been on our episode wish list for a while now — women in parks and recreation. Parks and recreation, like many professions, was once a male-dominated industry.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 14, 2020

Kim and Claude Walker — the founders of the Nashville-based Abundant Life Adventure Club, which is an outdoor adventure company breaking down barriers to the outdoors so that everyone can enjoy the wellness benefits of parks and open spaces. What the future holds for Abundant Life Adventure Club, and more.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They’ll be in San Diego, California, sharing how park and recreation professionals are agents of change in their communities — particularly around how they influence and change health behaviors and how parks are a solution to many of our most pressing health and wellness challenges, like obesity, mental health issues and substance use.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

But the federal government doesn't deal with rehabilitation of local parks or planting trees--well, the US Forest Service just provided to a lot of communities grants to do just that, " Announcing urban and community forestry funding "--and similarly supra localized projects. (And was a good way to keep people employed.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Parks, recreation centers, libraries. Usually cities have parks and libraries in the core. Not usually recreation and community centers. Interestingly, years ago I wrote about the DC Zoning Commission allowing developers to opt out of providing recreation space. are topics I've blogged about over the years.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The March issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode of the podcast, we’re diving deeper into the feature story, “Ensuring ‘An Equal Future’ for All,” which introduces a new TEDxCollegePark virtual event that park and recreation professionals won’t want to miss.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MAY 5, 2020

We often get to have conversations with park and recreation professionals who are doing incredible work in their communities. It’s not every day, though, that we get to chat with college students who are studying the field of parks and recreation and who will soon embark on the exciting journey of entering a new career in the field.

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Let's Talk Parks

AUGUST 22, 2021

Employees were scattered across town – pools, camps, parks, and recreation centers many miles away- and I didn’t want to send them another email that gets buried in their inbox. While I’m a certified park nerd (trademark pending), I wouldn’t recommend learning code for developing your intranet.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 24, 2020

Disclaimer: Today’s episode was previously recorded and focuses on the importance of mentoring in parks and recreation. But, park and recreation agencies are closing this gap by offering one-on-one and group youth mentoring programs and helping at-risk youth gain access to quality mentors.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You’ll also learn: · Why Christina and Cara are excited to join Open Space Radio · What we enjoyed about the 2023 NRPA Annual Conference · What we’re excited about when it comes to the future of parks and recreation · Topics we’re excited to explore on future episodes of the podcast · How we’re planning to be more (..)

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In addition to the episodes we release every other Tuesday morning, we are adding an extra episode each month that takes a deeper look at Parks & Recreation magazine’s feature article. On this episode we explore how one of the hottest topics of 2019 (check out eSports at the Rec Center? Are you seeing these trends?

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

MARCH 26, 2020

Disclaimer: Today’s episode was previously recorded and focuses on how parks can help save fireflies, which is the cover story of the April issue of Parks & Recreation magazine. We’re joined by the author, and editor-at-large for Parks & Recreation, Richard J.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

JULY 23, 2020

The August issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on today’s bonus episode, we’re diving deeper into one of this month’s feature stories, “ Restoring Nature’s Playground.” How park and recreation professionals can pursue similar nature-based or water play projects.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On today's episode of Open Space Radio, we’re joined by Aaron Hipp, an Associate Professor of Community Health and Sustainability at NC State University’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. The study focused on evaluating park use through observation, intercept surveys and community surveys.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

AUGUST 7, 2017

Today’s episode covers three trending topics that have been in the news lately. First, Pokémon Go — a throwback hot topic from last year — but new developments on a lawsuit involving Milwaukee County and Candy Lab games has brought augmented reality games and parks back into the limelight.

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A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They will also be challenged to explore how these programs can be assessed and recreated at their own institution. Readers will take away practical examples of collaboration across their campus and community that are suitable for their institution size.

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Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The March issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out now, and on this bonus episode of Open Space Radio we’re diving deeper into one of the feature articles, “ St. Louis: A Path Toward Equitable Design.” The article showcases the framework plan for the Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis — a $250 million greenway development.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Upon his graduation with a BS in engineering from Yale University, Hatry began working for a General Electric research facility in Santa Barbara. We will miss Harry’s persistence and tenacity advancing good government.” Jay Fountain, another pioneer in performance management was a colleague of Hatry’s for about four decades. ”I

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?); Application of TPAP thinking to other topics. They remade it into a full park circle. in terms of both (4) architecture and design; and (5) program/plan for what the functions within the building accomplish.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Note that sometime in the next few months, I plan to write a dedicated blog entry on this topic.) Individual schools need a program to systematically build relationships with their neighborhood. A big problem, at least in cities, is that households have a lot fewer children. I read somewhere that Helsinki does this.

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