About Us
City Parks Alliance is a national network of urban park and recreation leaders. Our mission is to create vibrant and healthy parks and green spaces that contribute to sustainable cities by organizing, facilitating and nurturing a broad-based movement.
Join/Renew DonateFunding Opportunities
- Hotline to Funding Call #6
CPA Hotline to Funding Call #6: Sustainable Communities Grants Program
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City Parks Alliance members are invited to join a free conference call featuring guest speaker Shelley Poticha, Senior ...
Featured Parks
- High Line Park
New York, NY
High Line Park is a jewel of Manhattan's West Side. Named after the railroad line ...
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Los Angeles, CA
The sprawling Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area stretches across Los Angeles and spans more ...
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- Park Pride's Annual Parks & Greenspace Conference
Park Pride’s Annual Parks & Greenspace ConferencePark Pride’s Annual Parks & Greenspace Conference is March 22 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden ...
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Join cpa members in Washington, DCOur national, state and local parks have always been viewed as an enduring legacy of this nation, but ...
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Undeveloping & Developing Detroit
Detroit Mayor David Bing has indicated that the city may have to clear some neighborhoods out in order to save others, a process that would involve picking winners and losers...
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Trend: Love the Leftover Spaces
One emerging trend in cities is to turn small underused or under-appreciated spaces into green features or social spaces.
Just look at New York City’s Plaza Program, which has transformed spaces...
Action Alerts
- Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act
Contact your elected representative to sign onto The Urban Revitalization and Livable Communities Act, introduced by Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ) and 22 co-sponsors, would authorize $445 million to be appropriated ...
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