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Phase 3: Refining the Design Principles

Informed decisions

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Cultural Resources and Climate Change

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 09:30
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What are the key questions park managers and design professionals must ask when addressing the possible effects of climate change at historic sites.  How can the design and planning community best influence the national discussion about climate change and cultural resources?

Parks Without Borders

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 09:16
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What does a park without borders look like? How is it created and perpetuated?

Inclusive Processes

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 09:15
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What are the most effective ways to ensure an inclusive design and planning process? How, in turn, does community input affect park design? 

Communities and Park Design

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 09:12
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What is the responsibility of the community for parks and the park experience?

Defining "Design Excellence"

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 09:02
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Define design excellence. How is it embodied in professional practice?  How is it perceived by the public?

Sustainable Design, Global Ecology, Visitor Use - Are they equal?

Submitted by Shaun Eyring on Thu, 2010-03-11 08:44
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Describe the intersection between sustainable design strategies, global ecology and visitor use. Are they equal or not? Are they achievable in concert?
 

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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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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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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