The Partners

Parks for the People is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. National Park Service, Van Alen Institute, and the National Parks Conservation Association, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. It is a project of Designing the Parks.

Parks for the People

Parks for the People refines and tests draft design principles developed through the Designing the Parks collaboration. This design competition is led by Van Alen Institute, a nonprofit architectural organization with a century-long commitment to the public realm.

Designing the Parks

Designing the Parks is a partnership among eight diverse organizations committed to sustaining healthy, vibrant public parks as a core of civic life. Embodied in this vision is a framework for planning and designing public parks that are innovative, responsive, respectful, sustainable, and inclusive.