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EDITOR'S LET TER

Designing Change
Seven years ago, NRPA participated in the overall improvement of Marvin Gaye Park in Washington, D.C.
It was from that work, united with NRPA's dedication to our Three Pillars - Conservation , Health and
Wellness and Social Equity - and our commitment
to improve parks in underserved communities, that
the Parks Build Community initiative was born.

VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING,
COMMUNICATIONS AND
PUBLISHING, AND EDITORIAL
DIRECTOR
Gina Mullins-Cohen
gcohen@nrpa.org

Refurbishing a park or building one from scratch
starts with ideas, people and plans that often exist in
the shadows. The teams responsible for selecting playground equipment, aquatic features, landscaping and
other amenities may never be known to the general
public, but their work will be appreciated for generations yet to be born.

MANAGING EDITOR
Sonia Myrick
smyrick@nrpa.org

This issue of Parks & Recreation magazine salutes the
planners, landscape architects, community leaders,
corporate sponsors and park and recreation professionals responsible for this great work,
in a special one-on-one interview with Forum Studio's Senior Associate/Senior Landscape Architect Neil Eisenberger, starting on page 56. This accomplished design house
was selected to help NRPA and its partners envision this year's Parks Build Community
project at Wellston, Missouri's Trojan Park - in this Q&A, Eisenberger takes a wider
view, discussing the way design impacts our physical, mental and social well-being.
Author Michael Cannavino, CPRP, looks at how park and public space design impacts
the incidence of crime, starting on page 60. Using tools like the crime triangle, Cannavino
explains how designers and planners can take a proactive approach to making their new
projects and revitalizations safer for residents and visitors alike.
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, weighs heavily on the American consciousness as
the specter of crumbling infrastructure and its often disastrous consequences is made all
too real in the poisoning of hundreds of adults and children. Executive Editor Samantha
Bartram takes a look at how the crisis is impacting parks and recreation in Flint and surrounding Genesee County, starting on page 10.
Design matters, but so does commitment. Commitment of residents, municipal leaders,
funders and you, the professionals who keep our public spaces up and running. NRPA is
committed to elevating the work you do each and every day through initiatives like Parks
Build Community, and in these pages, we hope to highlight the actions, stories and individuals who, regardless of circumstance, re-commit to this often challenging work each
and every day. All our communities are made better for it.

GINA MULLINS-COHEN
Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Publishing
Editorial Director
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PRESIDENT AND CEO
Barbara Tulipane, CAE

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Samantha Bartram
sbartram@nrpa.org

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR
Catrina Belt
cbelt@nrpa.org
PUBLICATION DESIGN
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www.creativebydesign.net
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ADVERTISING
Dana Storm
703.858.2174
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