People Make Parks is a toolkit for engaging communities in public park design. The toolkit, a joint project of Hester Street Collaborative and Partnerships for Parks outlines eight ways to participating in park design, from advocacy to community visioning activities to stewardship.
Read More"How Can I Improve My Park?"
A guide to improving city owned parks, produced by The Center for Urban Pedagogy
Read MoreBalloon Mapping the Environment
Using kites and balloons to take aerial photos and create maps of your neighborhood is a great way to start documenting and understanding a place.
Read MorePARK(ing) DAY around the world
There are countless options for what to do on PARK(ing) DAY. Playtime, workshops, communal meals, naps - these are just a few examples of what people have come up with. A parking space seems small but its transformation through programming and design can have a huge impact on the life of a public street.
Read MoreRace and the Controls of Public Parks
This publication explores the relationship of racial segregation in the city of Dallas and the development of the city's park system, over the past 100 years.
Read MoreLittle Free Libraries / Libros Libres
This publication tells the story of the first year, 2013-14, of buildingcommunityWORKSHOP's collaboration with Big Thought and the Dallas Public Library on Little Free Libraries/Libros Libres, a literacy and community design initiative in Dallas, Texas.
Read More"The PARK(ing) DAY Manual"
A short, practical guide to planning, designing and hosting a PARK(ing) DAY event, a yearly occurrence on the third Thursday of September, when people across the globe temporarily transform a metered parking space into a small public space or park.
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