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David Barth does the urban planning world a great service here, first showing the vital importance of parks to cities, then demonstrating clearly and rigorously the best ways to plan and obtain them. He does it all with refreshing humility, an accessible writing style, and a generosity of spirit. This book really moves the city parks conversation another step forward. --Peter Harnik, author, Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities David Barth provides a comprehensive guide to park and recreation system master planning that sets communities up to succeed. This new, holistic approach recognizes parks and recreation systems as part of public realm infrastructure serving social, environmental and economic needs. This book will help leaders leverage the multiple benefits that parks and recreation provide for a resilient and healthy future. --Catherine Nagel, Executive Director, City Parks Alliance In this marvelous book, David Barth explains how parks can transform an ordinary landscape into a resilient, sustainable community. Better yet, he provides the step by step instructions you will need to implement that transformation. --Alexander Garvin, CEO of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc. and author, What Makes a Great City, The American City, and more

""David Barth does the urban planning world a great service here, first showing the vital importance of parks to cities, then demonstrating clearly and rigorously the best ways to plan and obtain them. He does it all with refreshing humility, an accessible writing style, and a generosity of spirit. This book really moves the city parks conversation another step forward.""--Peter Harnik, author, ""Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities"" ""In this marvelous book, David Barth explains how parks can transform an ordinary landscape into a resilient, sustainable community. Better yet, he provides the step by step instructions you will need to implement that transformation."" --Alexander Garvin, CEO of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc. and author, ""What Makes a Great City"", ""The American City"", and more ""Barth provides a much-needed contemporary approach, calling for park and recreation systems to address inequities and climate change and become more interconnected and integral to a more equitable public realm.""-- ""The Dirt"" ""David Barth provides a comprehensive guide to park and recreation system master planning that sets communities up to succeed. This new, holistic approach recognizes parks and recreation systems as part of public realm infrastructure serving social, environmental and economic needs. This book will help leaders leverage the multiple benefits that parks and recreation provide for a resilient and healthy future.""--Catherine Nagel, Executive Director, City Parks Alliance ""An accessible and flexible text, it should find its way into undergraduate and professional development courses designed to introduce and improve parks and recreation system planning practice."" -- ""Journal of Urban Affairs"" ""Expertly written, skillfully organized and deftly presented, Parks and Recreation System Planning: A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities is an ideal textbook and instructional reference on the subject of developing and upgrading community parks and recreational resources. Enhanced for academia with thirty pages of Appendices, eight pages of Notes, and an eight page Index, Parks and Recreation System Planning is unconditionally recommended for all community, college, and university library Parks/Recreational Development collections and Urban/Land Use Planning supplemental curriculum studies lists."" -- ""Midwest Book Review""

Barth provides a much-needed contemporary approach, calling for park and recreation systems to address inequities and climate change and become more interconnected and integral to a more equitable public realm. -- The Dirt David Barth does the urban planning world a great service here, first showing the vital importance of parks to cities, then demonstrating clearly and rigorously the best ways to plan and obtain them. He does it all with refreshing humility, an accessible writing style, and a generosity of spirit. This book really moves the city parks conversation another step forward. --Peter Harnik, author, Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities David Barth provides a comprehensive guide to park and recreation system master planning that sets communities up to succeed. This new, holistic approach recognizes parks and recreation systems as part of public realm infrastructure serving social, environmental and economic needs. This book will help leaders leverage the multiple benefits that parks and recreation provide for a resilient and healthy future. --Catherine Nagel, Executive Director, City Parks Alliance In this marvelous book, David Barth explains how parks can transform an ordinary landscape into a resilient, sustainable community. Better yet, he provides the step by step instructions you will need to implement that transformation. --Alexander Garvin, CEO of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc. and author, What Makes a Great City, The American City, and more Expertly written, skillfully organized and deftly presented, Parks and Recreation System Planning: A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities is an ideal textbook and instructional reference on the subject of developing and upgrading community parks and recreational resources. Enhanced for academia with thirty pages of Appendices, eight pages of Notes, and an eight page Index, Parks and Recreation System Planning is unconditionally recommended for all community, college, and university library Parks/Recreational Development collections and Urban/Land Use Planning supplemental curriculum studies lists. -- Midwest Book Review

"""David Barth does the urban planning world a great service here, first showing the vital importance of parks to cities, then demonstrating clearly and rigorously the best ways to plan and obtain them. He does it all with refreshing humility, an accessible writing style, and a generosity of spirit. This book really moves the city parks conversation another step forward.""--Peter Harnik, author, ""Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities"" ""In this marvelous book, David Barth explains how parks can transform an ordinary landscape into a resilient, sustainable community. Better yet, he provides the step by step instructions you will need to implement that transformation."" --Alexander Garvin, CEO of AGA Public Realm Strategists, Inc. and author, ""What Makes a Great City"", ""The American City"", and more ""Barth provides a much-needed contemporary approach, calling for park and recreation systems to address inequities and climate change and become more interconnected and integral to a more equitable public realm.""-- ""The Dirt"" ""David Barth provides a comprehensive guide to park and recreation system master planning that sets communities up to succeed. This new, holistic approach recognizes parks and recreation systems as part of public realm infrastructure serving social, environmental and economic needs. This book will help leaders leverage the multiple benefits that parks and recreation provide for a resilient and healthy future.""--Catherine Nagel, Executive Director, City Parks Alliance ""An accessible and flexible text, it should find its way into undergraduate and professional development courses designed to introduce and improve parks and recreation system planning practice."" -- ""Journal of Urban Affairs"" ""Expertly written, skillfully organized and deftly presented, Parks and Recreation System Planning: A New Approach for Creating Sustainable, Resilient Communities is an ideal textbook and instructional reference on the subject of developing and upgrading community parks and recreational resources. Enhanced for academia with thirty pages of Appendices, eight pages of Notes, and an eight page Index, Parks and Recreation System Planning is unconditionally recommended for all community, college, and university library Parks/Recreational Development collections and Urban/Land Use Planning supplemental curriculum studies lists."" -- ""Midwest Book Review"""

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David Barth is a registered landscape architect, certified planner, and certified parks and recreation professional, specializing in the planning, design, and implementation of the public realm. He has developed parks and recreation system master plans for over 100 communities throughout the United States and led the planning and/or design of hundreds of parks and trails.

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