Looking At Parks From A Regional Perspective

Though regional thinking in the planning field has become cliche recently, the idea of regionalism isn't usually applied to parks and parkland. Yet, a group of citizens and government officials in the Portland area are calling for exactly that. "Citizens and officials who prepared a report on parks, submitted to the Metro Council last week, argued that parks will always be a green afterthought unless we begin to think of them as a regionwide resource. Why? Because parks demand a level of financing and futuristic thinking that local governments, under pressure to provide more basic public services, only rarely provide."