Revitalizing City Parks

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Philadelphia Green (Program)
Malcom X Memorial Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gorgas Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dickinson Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Campbell Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cliveden Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Carroll Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Center in the Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Vernon Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bardascino Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Konrad Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Parks in Progress

Titled Revitalizing City Parks, this video is the companion to The City Parks Handbook (2009) a manual for revitalizing parks produced by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Interviewed are Kenny Green, Volunteer, Malcolm X Memorial Park; Karen Sears, Friends of Gorgas Park; Ron Cohen, Volunteer, Friends of Dickinson Square; Hannah Hopkins, Volunteer, Friends of Dickinson Square; Mickey Flavel, President, Friends of Campbell Square; Robert Tobin, Board Member, Friends of Dickinson Square; Vicky Burkes, Volunteer, Friends of Cliveden Park; Joan Reilly, Senior Director, Philadelphia Green; John Boyce, Vice President, Friends of Gorgas Park; Doris Gwaltney, President, Friends of Carroll Park; Carla Puppin, President, Friends of Bardascino Park; Gregorio Cojulun, President, Friends of Malcolm X Memorial Park; Barbara McCabe, Neighborhood Parks Coordinator, Philadelphia Department of Recreation; Mark Focht, Executive Director, Fairmount Park. Described is Philadelphia Green's early involvement with the rehabilitation of Vernon Park in Germantown

2009

00:09:52

Green, Kenny
Sears, Karen
Cohen, Ron
Hopkins, Hannah
Flavel, Mickey
Tobin, Robert
Burkes, Vicky
Reilly, Joan
Boyce, John
Gwaltney, Doris
Puppin, Karla
Cojulun, Gregorio
McCabe, Barbara
Focht, Mark

Philadelphia (Pa.)

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