State of the Field: Urban Park Development, Funding, and Stewardship

Presented by Urban Planning Department

April
03
1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Private
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Date:
April 03, 2019
Time:
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Location:
The Puck Building - 295 Lafayette Street, Mulberry Conference Room (Room 3072), 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10012

Parks and open space in cities have long been a sought-after amenity in cities, and are even built by developers to enhance the value of their residential and commercial property. However, parks are also a first-order intervention for a number of urban issues.  We will discuss the public health, recreational, economic, safety and environmental impacts of parks; developer-built parks; waterfront parks and resiliency; the role of conservancies; measuring benefits and park progress; and how to raise political awareness and money for parks.



Carter Strickland is a new Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at NYU Wagner. He is the New York State Director for the Trust for Public Land, working to protect green space in and near cities. Carter has been active in the New York and New Jersey environmental communities for over 20 years, representing groups as a lawyer with the New York Attorney General’s office and Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic in a wide variety of matters, from public trust to hazardous waste to eminent domain cases. As part of Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability team, and later as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Carter created and implemented integrated approaches to infrastructure, water quality, air quality, climate change, land use, ecological restoration, and energy issues.  He was the architect of the $2.4 billion NYC Green Infrastructure Plan and the Clean Heat Plan, oversaw integrated watershed protection efforts, and conceived the city’s Wastewater Resilience Plan.

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