If you build it, they may not come. | Keunhyun Park | TEDxUSU

Too much is expected of urban parks. Neighborhood parks in the United States are expensive, unsustainable, inaccessible, and empty most of the time. Keun’s talk highlights what’s missing in contemporary park development and urban planning and calls for a re-imagination of our parks and neighborhoods. Keun is an assistant professor and a co-director of the VIVID lab (laep.usu.edu/vivid/) in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Metropolitan Planning, Policy, and Design from the University of Utah. Keun conducts behavioral research through spatial data analytics and digital technologies. Ultimately, his study aims to understand how to create healthy, just, and resilient cities through smart growth and urban nature. Specific research agendas include 1) Technology-driven behavioral research in public space (e.g., drone), 2) Spatial research on smart growth (compact, mixed-use, walkable, and transit-supportive developments) and its behavioral outcomes, and 3) Environmental justice and accessibility in urban nature. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@dong-ahchoi7536]

A very interesting and nice presentation

[@andreagarfinkel-castro5709]

Outstanding presentation with astute observations. The three key qualities of successful parks: salience, complexity, and accessibility identified by Park are also key approaches to attaining greater social justice. Salience - not only memorable but also the quality of being culturally relevant, being meaningful - is so overlooked but also so important and why a single landscape is unable to meet all cultural contexts. Complexity is what public space best able to provide - and what allows for free speech, gathering (yes, demonstrating, too), and the exercise of human rights. Accessibility brings it all together but ensuring that parks/public space is for everyone. Kudos for a clear and coherent discussion of why America's parks are so underused. Much like our single-zoned suburbs, let's start finding ways to remake them using the three qualities Park has identified.

[@sirgerbilmacintosh9101]

This is a subject that I absolutely never thought about one time until now.

[@yiyangwang1681]

We should rebuild our image of a good park.

[@jessiancavalcanti643]

it may be translated to software development, nice approach