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dc.titleUrban Parks: New York City
dc.contributor.authorSchoen, Daví Parente
dc.contributor.authorLibertun de Duren, Nora Ruth
dc.contributor.editorLibertun de Duren, Nora Ruth
dc.contributor.orgunitHousing and Urban Development Division
dc.coverageUnited States
dc.coverageNorth America
dc.date.available2020-05-12T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-05-12T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractNew York City's success in providing high-quality, sustainable, ecologically productive and equity-promoting parks in recent years presents a number of important lessons for cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This publication is a review of four innovative strategies that have emerged in New York City to add to and maintain the citys park portfolio and how can New York City serve as a useful case with lessons to consider for providing parks in LAC. Cities across LAC face mounting challenges in the provision of public green space. Currently, a majority of LAC cities fall short of providing the World Health Organizations recommended minimum of 9m2 of green space per resident. Residents in cities across the region also face barriers to accessing parks and many are of poor or declining quality. The underlining social economic inequality and spatial segregation in many LAC cities is also reflected in the uneven distribution of parks and other green spaces. For cities in the region, the challenge is one of quantity, quality, and spatial distribution. The political dynamics, institutional arrangements, financial mechanisms, design strategies, and maintenance programs that have proven critical to enabling NYCs recent innovations, therefore, bear a number of lessons for cities across LAC.
dc.format.extent61
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002339
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Urban-Parks-New-York-City.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Parques-urbanos-Nueva-York.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/portuguese/document/Parques-urbanos-Nova-York.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectUrban Infrastructure
dc.subjectUrban Planning
dc.subjectUrban Revitalization
dc.subjectLand Use
dc.subjectUrban Renewal
dc.subjectUrban Innovation
dc.subjectCitizen Participation
dc.subjectMunicipal Government
dc.subjectGreen Urban Growth
dc.subjectUrban Park
dc.subject.jelcodeO21 - Planning Models • Planning Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeR10 - General Regional Economics: General
dc.subject.jelcodeR11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
dc.subject.jelcodeO35 - Social Innovation
dc.subject.keywordscities;Urban Planning;housing;parks;urban financing;housing and urban planning;urban parks
dc.typeMagazines, Journals and Newsletters
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-JN-00049
idb.operationBK-C1951
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