Funding Parks for Community Interests
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Pimentel, Ruth
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Public parks have lost significant government funding in recent decades, and are continuing to lose it. However, non-profits, corporate foundations, real estate developers, and community organizations can also play important roles in funding and building parks. As Atlanta diversifies its funding strategies for public parks, it will be important to know how each choice might affect the way a park can serve its neighbors. This paper seeks to answer the following questions: How can we categorize Atlanta parks based on a typology of the ways they have been funded? How well does each type of park fulfill neighbors’ wishes for the area? What recommendations can help Atlanta develop and finance parks that will better respond to the desires of parks’ neighbors? Representative City of Atlanta parks are selected as examples of the typology, and their current amenities are compared to lists of community requests during past park planning processes. Parks primarily created by non-profit organizations and and parks primarily created by community organizations show the highest percentages of community requests fulfilled, though many complicating factors may also impact this outcome.
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2020
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Applied Research Paper