Parks - PRB+ Magazine

Safer Routes To Recreation Destinations

When people describe a task as “a walk in the park,” it’s a way of saying it's easy, straightforward, and pleasant to accomplish.

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Rethinking Playground Design For Continuous Play

Community playgrounds strive to be spaces that families return to many times. For this to happen, playgrounds need to keep ideas and opportunities for play fresh so children remain engaged, challenged, and eager to come back.

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Where Ideas Take Root

For a young landscape designer, the path from concept to completion is rarely straightforward.

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Building A Model Urban Park In A Mid-Sized City

For decades, the nearly 12 acres of land behind Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., offered little more than parking and pavement.

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Reimagining A Civic Landmark

Designing urban parks typically does not start from scratch. More often, designers inherit not only complex sites and aging infrastructure, but also sites and spaces deeply rooted in city and community history.

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Parks 7 min read

Carol Fox Park

Nostalgia runs deep in Jersey Village, Texas. Home to over 8,000 residents, this close-knit community is built on decades of shared experiences, familiar faces, and stories that tend to begin with, “Do you remember when …?” At the center of many of those memories is Carol Fox Park.

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Digging Into Sand Play

One sunny June afternoon, a dozen busy children gathered in the sand-play area of the Lubber Run Playground in Arlington, Va.

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Lessons From Connor Park

Connor Park, a previously long-neglected, contaminated site, has been transformed into what is now a vibrant, public greenspace and stormwater eco-park in the heart of Palmetto, Fla.

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Parks 6 min read

The Time To Act

After 22 years of working with architects, landscape architects, and facility planners across the country, I've watched shade evolve from an amenity to core infrastructure.

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Parks 7 min read

Letters To Jack

The Tulare Parks & Recreation's "Letters to Jack Skellington" is a community-engagement program designed to promote literacy, community connection, and a holiday spirit.

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Parks 6 min read

Small Sides, Major Impacts

It all started with Little League, when baseball aficionados introduced sports to kids by standardizing fields that were built to be the right size for them.

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Parks 5 min read

Bringing People Together

The fastest-growing demographic of athletes in parks isn’t made up of youth athletes, although it does include many people who once were.

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Parks 4 min read