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Civic Center,
Denver, CO
Photo Courtesy Denver Parks
and Recreation
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City Parks Alliance
(CPA) is a national organization comprised of
city park and recreation
leaders from the public and non-profit sectors
across the country who
work together to strengthen America's city
parks. Formed in 2000,
City Parks Alliance works to:
- Organize
and build a nationwide network of city parks
and recreation groups to
raise the national consciousness about the
value and importance of city
parks.
- Enhance capacity of city parks
and recreation groups
throughout the country through a collaborative
and information sharing
network.
- Advocate for greater,
federal, state and local funding of city
parks.
- Collect, disseminate and promote
information that makes the case for greater
investment in city parks.
- Create
new strategic partnerships with national
health, economic, education,
recreation and sports, environmental and
philanthropic initiatives.
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Audubon Center,
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Photo
Courtesy Prospect Park Archives
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National Association for Olmsted
Parks
(NAOP) is an advocacy and research organization
that is building a
constituency of support for the legacy of
Frederick Law Olmsted; his
step-son, John Charles; and his son, Frederick
Law Olmsted Junior.
Spanning ninety years of work, the Olmsteds and
their firm designed
1,000 public parks, the grounds of the U.S.
Capitol, residential
developments, college campuses, private
residences and more. The
Olmsteds established important landscape design
principles and left
copious records of their work. The Olmsted work
is as valid today as it
was when designed 150 to 60 years ago.
NAOP
seeks to advance these principles to a new
generation of landscape
designers and users in addition to ensuring
that parks' leaders and
users know and understand the site's history.
Established in 1980,
NAOP is a diverse group with
practitioners, historians, civic activists, and
Olmsted park leaders and scholars.
