[PDF] Partnerships For Parks eBook

Author : John Krinsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022643561X

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America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels like Manhattan’s Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment tested, and leaves raked. Bringing this often-invisible work into view, however, raises profound questions for citizens of cities. In Who Cleans the Park? John Krinsky and Maud Simonet explain that the work of maintaining parks has intersected with broader trends in welfare reform, civic engagement, criminal justice, and the rise of public-private partnerships. Welfare-to-work trainees, volunteers, unionized city workers (sometimes working outside their official job descriptions), staff of nonprofit park “conservancies,” and people sentenced to community service are just a few of the groups who routinely maintain parks. With public services no longer being provided primarily by public workers, Krinsky and Simonet argue, the nature of public work must be reevaluated. Based on four years of fieldwork in New York City, Who Cleans the Park? looks at the transformation of public parks from the ground up. Beginning with studying changes in the workplace, progressing through the public-private partnerships that help maintain the parks, and culminating in an investigation of a park’s contribution to urban real-estate values, the book unearths a new urban order based on nonprofit partnerships and a rhetoric of responsible citizenship, which at the same time promotes unpaid work, reinforces workers’ domination at the workplace, and increases the value of park-side property. Who Cleans the Park? asks difficult questions about who benefits from public work, ultimately forcing us to think anew about the way we govern ourselves, with implications well beyond the five boroughs.

Author : Robin Nazzaro
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1437920926

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The National Park Service (NPS) annually receives hundreds of millions of dollars in donated funds, goods, and services to support its 391 parks and other sites. But concerns have been raised about potential risks, such as undue donor influence, new long-term maintenance costs, or commercialization of parks. To address these concerns, the NPS has developed policies for managing donations, but questions remain about the agency's ability to do so effectively. This report examines: (1) how donations and related partnerships have supported the NPS; (2) the policies and processes the agency uses to manage donations and how well they are working; and (3) what the agency could do to enhance its mgmt. of donations and related partnerships. Illus.

Author : Eve Endicott
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1993-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610913492

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Today, rarely is a significant land acquisition accomplished without at least one private- and one public-sector participant. This book provides a detailed, inside look at those public- private partnerships.