Emerging Trends in Parks and Recreation — January Bonus Episode

The January 2021 issue of Parks & Recreation magazine is out
now, and this month’s issue features the highly anticipated cover
story, “Top Trends in Parks and Recreation 2021,” by Rich Dolesh,
NRPA’s retired vice president of strategic initiatives and Parks
& Recreation magazine’s editor at large. On today’s bonus
episode of the podcast, we’re replaying the full session of our
“Emerging Trends in Parks and Recreation” Coffee Talk from the
2020 NRPA Annual Conference: A Virtual Experience (NRPA Virtual)
this past October.


In this session, we had the opportunity to sit down with Rich, as
well as Greg Weitzel, an NRPA board member and director of the
Las Vegas Department of Parks and Recreation, and Brendan Daley,
director of strategy and sustainability at the Chicago Park
District, to talk about some of the trends park and recreation
professionals will be seeing in near future — and some that we’re
already seeing come to fruition.


Tune in below to hear our full Coffee Talk with Rich, Greg and
Brendan to learn:


How the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated
trends that they have seen occurring or that they predict will
take place.


What technology changes will increasingly influence parks and
recreation, and why will they happen.


How climate change is having a greater impact on parks and
recreation every year and what the greatest impacts are, as well
as what is causing them to accelerate.


What new trends they see over the horizon and how will they
affect parks and recreation in the future, and more!