Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns

Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks.

Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns is arranged around 12 topics that represent key questions, contradictions or tensions in the design of small parks.  Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems and human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design.