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Advancing Parks and
the Public Realm
David Barth shares his fresh look at the public realm
and how smart design can improve communities
By Samantha Bartram

T

he 2014 NRPA Congress will feature a number of exciting speakers throughout the three-day event, including those slated to present
during our new Glass Room Sessions. One such individual is David
Barth, a planner, facilitator and designer with more than three decades of
experience examining and reimagining public spaces. Barth's credentials are
many: He obtained a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture at the University of Florida, achieved his master's in organizational leadership from
Palm Beach Atlantic University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the
University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning. He's
also a Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP) and a member of
the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). Barth will kick off the Glass Room
Sessions with a discussion titled, " Creating High-Performance Park and Recreation Systems, " focusing on how park and recreation departments have
a unique opportunity to become " more essential " by creating systems that
make innovative contributions to their communities.
" I want to help communities harness the power of their park and
recreation systems to become more
resilient and sustainable, " says Barth,
owner/operator of his new firm, David L. Barth LLC. Prior to establishing his own business, Barth served as
a principal with Glatting Jackson/
AECOM, where he worked on dozens of planning and consultation projects and honed his specializations in
park and recreation planning, facilitation and design. All that experience
has crafted his current vision of cities
as spaces replete with benefits for the
citizenry that are simply waiting to be
harnessed. " Cities should be thinking about how they can generate the

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" Every element of the
public realm - as much
as 50 percent of a city's
land mass - has the
potential to generate
multiple benefits. "
most benefits through the planning,
design and/or management of their
public realm, " Barth says. " Every element of the public realm - as much

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as 50 percent of a city's land mass -
has the potential to generate multiple
benefits. "
Barth cites New York City's High
Line project as a great example of
holistic design for maximum usage,
saying, " [The High Line] has spurred
redevelopment of the west side of
the Chelsea area of Manhattan and
serves as a social gathering space
and a performance venue for local
residents and tourists. It also reduces stormwater runoff, mediates the
heat-island effect created by hard/
reflective city surfaces, and creates
shade, oxygen and habitat for insects
and birds. " His current research on
this and other projects he identifies
as " High-Performance Public SpacesĀ© " begins to scratch the surface of
the multiple advantages of designing
and placemaking with environmental stability, economic prosperity
and alleviation of social problems in
mind. Those include many of the 19
communitywide benefits that could
potentially be delivered by the pub-



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