This webinar will focus on the management of public parks and recreation services in the context of homelessness.
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Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure
What makes a city truly livable is not only housing, transit, or utilities—it is also the everyday places where people can rest, play, learn, create, and feel part of something bigger. Social Infrastructure is Essential Infrastructure explores how parks, libraries, recreation centers, sidewalks, plazas, community gardens, skateparks, and transit stops form the social backbone of...
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World Urban Parks and Parks and Leisure Australia forge new partnership to strengthen global collaboration
A new partnership between World Urban Parks and Parks and Leisure Australia will strengthen international connections, expand knowledge exchange and bring Australian expertise closer to the global parks and public space community.
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Announcing the 2026 World Urban Parks Annual Awards Winners
World Urban Parks (WUP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2026 Annual Awards Program.
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Designing for Goodbye: A Landscape Architect’s Perspective on Cemeteries and Public Space with Hamish Coates
In this episode of PodParks, we are joined by Hamish Coates, Principal Designer at the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust in Melbourne, Australia.
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Developing Local Communities through Sustainable Tourism: A Roadmap
Key insight: Most community tourism projects don’t fail because the idea was flawed. They fail because an outside agency builds the infrastructure, cuts the ribbon, and leaves — handing the community a project it never truly owned. That’s exactly where this roadmap begins. That honest starting point is what makes the document useful. Instead of...
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Working in Parks Beyond Government: Park People and Non-Profits with Erika Nikolai
In this episode of PodParks, we are joined by Erika Nikolai, Executive Director of Park People, a national Canadian charity working to activate and strengthen urban parks through community partnerships.
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Behavioral Guide for Urban Spaces II
The conversation continues — and this time, it goes quieter, deeper, and closer to the ground. The first guide taught us to read the loud, visible behaviors: how people walk, sit, wait, and belong. This second volume tunes the ear to the subtle signals — the ones that shape how cities function, adapt, and endure...
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Behavioral Guide for Urban Spaces
The city is already talking. The question is whether we’re listening. Most urban design starts with a plan and hopes people will follow it. This guide flips that logic. It starts with people — how they actually walk, sit, wait, gather, and sometimes quietly rebel against the spaces we build — and turns those everyday...
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Guide to Creating Urban Public Spaces for Children (SPACES)
The number that frames everything: globally, only 44% of urban residents live near an open public space — and in low- and middle-income countries that figure drops to 30%. As motorization, privatization, and sprawl erase child-friendly areas, a generation is growing up with fewer safe places to play, learn, and simply be children. What it...
