Population Density Classes
This document provides explanation of the population density classes used in the City Park Facts Reports and the different classifications of these classes.
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CCPE Publications
The Center for City Park Excellence publications cover a range a topics from park renewal and city planning to the economic and health benefits of parks and open space.
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Redevelopment Authorities and Parks (CCPE, 2009)
Parks often serve as the anchor for the old and new buildings around them so many city parks aren???t being created by park and recreation departments but rather by redevelopment authorities with the money and power to paint large on the urban canvas.
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Renewing the Source: The Redesign of a San Antonio Park
"Renewing the Source: The Redesign of a San Antonio Park Reconciles Citizens From Opposite Sides of the Tracks" (San Pedro Springs Park) originally appeared in Landscape Architecture Magazine, June, 2004.
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Reviving Pittsburgh's Nine-Mile-Run (Landscape Architecture, 2007)
In Pittsburgh, activists and scientists are working with government agencies to bring a biologically dead stream back to life. Nine Mile Run, which begins in neighborhoods high above the Monongahela River then flows through Frick Park, is the greatest stream restoration project ever undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers and the subject of this article. (Originally published in Landscape Architecture, November, 2007)
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Road Closures in Parks (Planning, 2008)
Cities across the country are closing their park roads to cars and opening them to people and finding that these freed up areas are increasing park usership without much of the feared consequences of traffic problems and accessibility.
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Safer Parks After Dark (CCPE, 2012)
Safer Parks After Dark: New night-lighting methods in parks.
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Salem, Oregon, Park System Report
This report on Salem, Oregon's park system was created assist in creating the city's 1999 Park and Recreation master plan.
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San Diego's Balboa Park Report, Part II (2008)
San Diego?s Balboa Park, one of the largest and most cherished urban parks in the country, is at a crossroad, facing challenges of automobile traffic, homelessness, horticultural decline and maintenance cutbacks. Drawing upon user surveys, budgetary analysis and best practices from Other iconic parks, the Center provided a range of strategies to renew Balboa Park, including the option of establishing a park conservancy. Published 2008.
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Seattle Park Value Report
This study enumerates seven major factors that relate to the economic value of Seattle parks: property value, tourism, direct use, health, community cohesion, clean water, and clean air.
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Shoehorning Parks into Cities (Landscape Architecture, 2009)
Read about built-out cities across the country creating new parkland from untraditional spaces, from an article by Peter Harnik in the May 2009 issue of Landscape Architecture.
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