Principles

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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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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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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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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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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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