Parks That Protect
Highlights leading-edge waterfront park projects that are designed to protect their neighborhoods from climate threats while improving residents’ health and quality of life.
Reports
ULI reports outline opportunities for integrating park and open space investments into local plans and projects and include recommendations for related financing, design, phasing, and community engagement strategies.
Five Characteristics of High-Quality Parks
Presents a framework for park quality that can help all park developers and managers systematically assess quality to make investments and address longstanding disparities in access to high-quality parks.
10 Principles for Enhancing Equitable Access to Parks
Distills and synthesizes key themes, lessons learned, and best practices from the recommendations of 14 ULI technical assistance efforts on parks and open spaces.
The Pandemic and the Public Realm
Profiles over 30 innovative public space programs and projects that were created in response to COVID-19 and showcases how temporary, flexible, equitable, and iterative projects can be more responsive to quickly changing needs while building support for future projects in the recovery.
Pavement to Parks
Presents stories of cities and organizations that have worked to transform or enhance spaces formerly dedicated to cars into parks and open spaces that support recreation, community engagement, sustainability and resilience, and neighborhood connectivity and revitalization.
Successful Partnerships for Parks
Explores case studies and examples of successful partnerships for equitable parks, and distill lessons learned from these projects, to inform potential partnership arrangements.
The Case for Open Space
Outlines four compelling cases for developers to invest in open space and includes insights from developers, public officials, and others working at the intersection of open space and real estate development.
Additional Reports
Active Transportation and Real Estate: The Next Frontier, Urban Land Institute, 2016.
Building Healthy Corridors: Transforming Urban and Suburban Arterials into Thriving Places, ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative, Rose Center for Public Leadership, and National League of Cities, 2016.
Building Healthy Places Toolkit: Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment, ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative, 2015.
Paths to Partnership: Nurturing LA’s River & Rail Vitality, ULI Los Angeles, December 2014.
Building for Wellness: The Business Case, Urban Land Institute, 2014.
Conservation Communities: Creating Value with Nature, Open Space, and Agriculture, Urban Land Institute, 2014 (available for sale through the ULI Bookstore).
Creating Healthy Places through Active Mobility, Urban Land Institute and Centre for Liveable Cities, 2014.
Ten Principles for Building Healthy Places, ULI Building Healthy Places Initiative, 2013.
Open Space: An Asset without a Champion?, Gensler and Urban Land Institute, 2011.
Parks, People, and Places: Making Parks Accessible to the Community, Urban Land Institute, 2006.
Inside City Parks, Urban Land Institute and the Trust for Public Land, 2000.
Urban Parks and Open Space, Urban Land Institute, 1997.
Value by Design – Landscape, Site Planning, and Amenities, Urban Land Institute, 1994.