Vlog Overview
The "Parks Are Like Icebergs" vlog is a comprehensive exploration of urban parks, including urban parks planning, design, construction, programming and maintenance. The vlog marries the creator's extensive experience as a parks practitioner for over 30 years with my recently completed PhD in parks planning decision-making using institutional theory. The vlog's intended audience is quite diverse and includes elected officials, planning professionals, landscape architects, community engagement practitioners, recreationists, academics, and community social actors. Please feel free to subscribe to review 35+ past vlogs and each new one as they arrive! Finally, my reflections are not neutral, and often adopt a community first focus or perspective in the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada area. As such my experiences are reflective of a specific legislative and cultural setting. Any planning practitioner or researcher who tells you they are truly agnostic are consciously or unconsciously misleading themselves or others. My vlog strategy is to contextualize the perspectives of my own and others. Also, I like to have fun… hence my inclusion of memes and doggo pictures! Happy reading!!!
Todays Ice Sculpture: Urban Planning Fiction
My writing journey is expanding. I have begun preparation of a fictional account of a planning decision-making process based on a collage or composite account of my personal experiences and reflections, hopefully while introducing some humour. The book will reveal behind the nuances of land use change processes using institutional theory. The book will contextualize “actual” land use process realities, both seen and unseen, considering the broader economic, social, ecological, cultural and governance setting. I have not yet landed on a working title. I will continue to write my vlogs. Who knew writing was hard???? 😂
Stay tuned!