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Meeting Park Needs Through Mobile Recreation

May 26, 2019 By Clement Lau

screenshot NYC parks mobile rec vans programHave you heard of mobile recreation?  Essentially, this is the idea of bringing recreational resources to communities, especially those that lack parks.  UCLA professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris was perhaps ahead of her time when she said in 1995 that “the ever-changing urban form and social ecology of neighborhoods calls for a flexible rather than rigid park design and for spatial layouts that can be easily changed in response to future needs… One can even think of mobile parks-spaces whose equipment and furniture can be transported to other parts of the city if the need arises.” [Read more…] about Meeting Park Needs Through Mobile Recreation

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Los Angeles, Parks & Recreation Facilities, Planning Tagged With: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, mobile recreation, mobile recreation vans, NYC Parks, underserved communities

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