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Phase 3: Refining the Design Principles

Communities and Park Design

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What is the responsibility of the community for parks and the park experience?

Expansion beyond traditional boundaries

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Park planning and design will

  • Openly communicate ideas and engage in community partnerships
  • Build, design and promote dynamic linkeages and networks among parks, communities, natural systems.
  • Seek joint/shared programming among park systems
  • Broaden a visitors understanding of the ecosystem connections across parks
  • Build parks and programs that enhance social, cultural, and natural expressions
  • Create parks without borders
  • Link systems and visitors
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Advancement of sustainability

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Park planning and design will

  • Advance design as a larger community investment with the park as one component
  • Emphasize people and relationships as core to sustainability.
  • Inspire stewardship and exercise leadership through demonstration of sustainable practices;  allow parks to become classrooms of sustainable design
  • Integrate responsible design and planning processes
  • View stewardship holistically and embed conservation in all park philosophies and practices
  • Include cu
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Informed decision making

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Park planning and design will

  • Embrace first a comprehensive knowledge of resources and attributes.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of the problem.
  • Draw upon best available science and research.
  • Apply the knowledge in the planning and design process.
  • Be open to new information and inclusive at all levels
  • Ensure research is done to professional standards

 

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An integrated research, planning, design, and review process

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Park planning and design will

  • Elevate public stewardship through transparent and engaging processes.
  • Demonstrate design excellence, leadership, and park management 
  • Involve professional planners and designers from start.
  • Seek participatory process that leads to sound design decisions, not necessarily a consensus.
  • Embrace other professional guidance and discussion
  • Reconcile conflicting mandates through a clear understanding of resource values, park management goals, informed
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Engagement of all people

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Park planning and design will

  • Connect people to community, nature and mankind.
  • Create healing places for individuals, communities, cultures.
  • Engage people of diverse cultures, ages and interests.
  • Empower youth to be bold leaders and influence design in parks.
  • Create stewards through active learning about a place and its meanings
  • Lead and inspire by example.
  • Accommodate, incorporate, and enhance emerging technologies to embrace visitor of all ages and backgrounds.
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Reverence for place

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Park planning and design will

  • Capture and preserve the spirit of place.
  • Understand the place, including the past and its inconvenient truths.
  • Acknowledge a site's complexity and embrace it.
  • Protect the essential character.
  • Understand tensions; integrate multiple values and perspectives.
  • Assess the resource; know what's flexible and what cannot change.
  • Value a site's history and purpose.
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