{"id":407842,"date":"2021-02-25T06:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=407842"},"modified":"2024-03-12T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:47:37","slug":"smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts"},"author":5642,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[455201],"tags":[473392,901,473382,321],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478482],"esri_blog_department":[478192],"class_list":["post-407842","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-climate-of-change","tag-30x30","tag-cities","tag-curb-emissions","tag-parks","esri-blog-category-services","esri_blog_department-gis-for-good"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"The Trust for Public Land helps guide local park improvement by quantifying inequity and climate impact.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"The Trust for Public Land provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/location-intelligence\">location intelligence<\/a> and analyzes social and environmental factors to make the case for parks and open space for people who need them most.\r\n\r\nKey Takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The Trust for Public Land built ParkServe, a comprehensive database of local parks in nearly 14,000 US cities, towns, and communities.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Cities turn to The Trust for Public Land to quantify and measure quality of park inventory.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>By identifying communities underserved by parks, cities work with The Trust for Public Land to address equity.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":407902,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"As the locus of most economic activity and greenhouse gas emissions, cities around the world face the escalating challenge of understanding and managing climate change. Cities are home to half the world\u2019s population, and as urbanization increases so too will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/about\/climate-action\/overview\">climate risk<\/a>. This makes urban strategies to curb emissions all the more critical. Many of these strategies are being built around location-specific insight from data-driven maps and spatial analysis, using a geographic information system (GIS).\r\n\r\nWhile cities stand out as primary contributors to climate issues, they are also the biggest victims of climate change. Most lie near coastlines or inland waters, putting them in immediate danger from rising sea levels and extreme weather events.\r\n\r\nTaking a more granular view, climate vulnerability across cities is unevenly distributed. Low-income communities suffer more than others, often for deeply rooted historical reasons. As the crisis intensifies, these urban climate inequities will too.\r\n<h3><strong>City Smarts and Smart Cities<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nLeaders in many major US cities are approaching climate risk and social equity issues by rethinking public parks, guided by GIS maps. To that end, the Trust for Public Land (TPL)\u2014a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates for the creation of parks and preservation of greenspaces\u2014has partnered with governments in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, and other US cities. Ten years ago, TPL launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpl.org\/how-we-work\/climate-smart-cities\">Climate-Smart Cities<\/a> program which addresses unique climate-related problems in urban areas.\r\n\r\n\u201cParks promote health and improve well-being, build social cohesion when communities come together outdoors, and make cities more resilient to climate change,\u201d said Lara Miller, TPL\u2019s senior GIS project manager."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"TPL staff use GIS maps to, for instance, identify which communities are underserved by parks or identify how many people within a city are able to reach a park within a 10-minute walk.\r\n\r\nThrough collaborative work with local governments, TPL helps cities build green infrastructure with an emphasis on climate change resilience. Projects might include new trails and transit lines, tree canopy to increase shade and reduce heat islands, parkland and playgrounds that double as flood-reducers, and shoreline parks that protect coastal cities from sea level rise.\r\n<h3><strong>The Climate Crisis and the Crescent City<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nJust a few years into recovery from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became one of the first TPL Climate Smart Cities partnerships. Causing more than 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage, Katrina was a harbinger of the disruptive weather events that would increase with climate change.\r\n\r\nAs the city prioritized improving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/about\/climate-action\/overview\/climate-risk-management\">climate resilience<\/a>, TPL facilitated the creation of \u201cgreen schoolyards,\u201d replacing concrete surfaces prone to flooding with gardens of native plants that absorb rainfall and runoff. Several other interventions, including wetlands restoration and stormwater catchment basins, also addressed flood concerns while increasing open space access for neighborhoods that did not previously have it."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":407922,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The New Orleans collaboration set a Climate Smart precedent for encouraging data-driven solutions. TPL developed Climate Smart Cities New Orleans, a GIS-based tool to plan and implement projects. Climate Smart Cities New Orleans stores and integrates location-specific datasets, and projects them as layers on a smart map. For New Orleans, this included flood data, public health and household income information, and a map layer of green space access across the city.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe tailor our work based on a city\u2019s biggest challenges and goals,\u201d said Taj Schottland, The Trust for Public Land\u2019s senior climate program manager. \u201cFor a city like New Orleans, it\u2019s no surprise that the emphasis would be on flooding and absorbing runoff. In other cities, sometimes it\u2019s transportation or urban heat islands that emerge as the major priority.\u201d\r\n\r\nThese tools help communities to understand risks, but also guide local action. In New Orleans, \u201cwhenever someone proposes a green infrastructure project, the City requires the applicants to use our decision-support tool to justify why they want to do it in a given location,\u201d Schottland explained."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":407912,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.tpl.org\/city\/new-orleans-louisiana"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h2><strong>The Big Drawdown<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nThe paradox cities face in the age of climate change is that they are, as the United Nations put it, both <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/09\/1046662\">\u201cthe cause of and the solution to\u201d<\/a> this existential crisis. Even as they compound the problem, cities embody many of the best solutions.\r\n\r\nFor example, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.curbed.com\/2018\/12\/11\/18136188\/city-density-climate-change-zoning\">density<\/a> can promote sustainability. Research suggests that if the US were to take moderate steps toward promoting housing density and improving transit, by 2030 the country could cut its emissions by a third.\r\n\r\nThe goal of the Climate Smart Cities program, run by The Trust for Public Land (TPL), is to help cities manage the effects of climate change through targeted green infrastructure projects. TPL recently expanded its climate-related activities to help cities understand the part they can play in alleviating the root cause of the climate crisis.\r\n\r\nUsing the same type of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.tplgis.org\/udi\/\">GIS-based tools<\/a> employed by Climate Smart Cities, TPL has partnered with the <a href=\"https:\/\/urbandrawdown.solutions\/\">Urban Drawdown Initiative<\/a>\u2014a project of the Urban Sustainability Directors Network\u2014to advance nature-based solutions that capture and store carbon and, critically, deliver local health, equity and economic development benefits for communities.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019re working with a host of cities, Colorado State University and other researchers to quantify carbon capture by urban green spaces, and then model how different nature-based interventions can increase active carbon capture,\u201d said Taj Schottland, TPL\u2019s senior climate program manager. \u201cThis work is groundbreaking and has the potential to transform our understanding of the role re-greening our cities can play in the climate crisis.\u201d","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><strong>Environmental Justice<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nIntense media coverage of Hurricane Katrina highlighted the equity component of natural disasters\u2014who is impacted more than others, and how those affected are treated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=2106693b39454f0eb0abc5c2ddf9ce40\">the disaster\u2019s aftermath<\/a>.\r\n\r\nNew Orleans\u2019 Black residents, faced with disproportionate poverty rates, were less likely to have a means of escaping the city. In the most symbolically stark example, evacuees were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-bridge-to-gretna\/\">prevented by police<\/a> from walking over the Mississippi River bridge that connects New Orleans with the much whiter town of Gretna.\r\n\r\nIn the ensuing years, environmental justice\u2014the equal treatment and involvement of all people in environmental decision making\u2014has become more mainstream.\r\n\r\nTPL\u2019s Climate Smart tool has been one way for cities to highlight environmental justice. In a recent collaboration, TPL staff helped Los Angeles planners identify areas of extreme heat within the city to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/los-angeles-shade-equity\/\">prioritize heat reduction efforts<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe were able to show the city the census blocks, and the data relating to the census blocks, overlaid with heat islands,\u201d Schottland said.\u00a0\u201cLow-income residents who live in hotter neighborhoods with less tree canopy are less likely to have the resources to pay for air conditioning\u2014or they may be more likely to work outside instead of having an air-conditioned office job. So we want to direct city investments to these neighborhoods and protect those who are experiencing extreme heat.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":407932,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3><strong>Maintaining Equity<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nAs our society has come to understand the need to tackle social inequity and the climate crisis, TPL staff have refined their approach. As TPL builds new GIS-based tools and creates new parks, the staff help cities guard against unintended consequences of neighborhood improvement. New green infrastructure like parks, gardens, and playgrounds can make a neighborhood more desirable, a process researchers call \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/critical-sustainabilities.ucsc.edu\/environmental-gentrification\/\">environmental gentrification<\/a>.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cThere are examples of green space being created in a neighborhood and people being displaced,\u201d Miller said. \u201cDuring planning and project implementation, it is critical we engage community partners to understand gentrification or displacement concerns and bring those concerns into our park development process.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Climate-Smart Cities tool provides a way, in effect, to knit together TPL\u2019s three pillars of parkland value\u2014health, equity, and climate\u2014into a more expansive view of the modern city.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe program has always had an equity lens, but our thinking about what equity itself means has evolved and continues to evolve,\u201d Miller said. \u201cWhen it began, we were thinking more in terms of \u00a0physical access, like who is without air conditioning or those who can\u2019t walk to a park within 10-minutes of where they live. Now we can also examine other issues related to equity, like access to information and decision making.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis evolution continues in another national tool developed by TPL, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpl.org\/parkscore\/about\">ParkScore<\/a> Index. This index quantifies how well the 100 largest US cities are providing communities with park resources. Cities are awarded points based on analysis of four important characteristics of an effective park system:\u00a0acreage, investment, amenities, and access. This year ParkScore will add a fifth characteristic, equity, to better assess how park systems are providing equitable access to the health, climate, and community-building benefits of parks and greenspace.\r\n\r\nTPL developers also designed ParkServe, another GIS tool that quantifies how well the cities are meeting community needs for greenspace. Using ParkServe, city leaders and park advocates can access TPL\u2019s comprehensive database of local parks in nearly 14,000 cities, towns, and communities to guide improvement efforts. This data underpins TPL\u2019s engagement with cities."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h2><strong>Including Equity and Urban Access in 30x30 Conservation Plans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h2>\r\nIn January, as one of his first acts in office, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/27\/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad\/\">executive order<\/a> outlining several directives related to the climate crisis. Among them was a pledge to conserve 30 percent of the country\u2019s land and waters by 2030. Several countries and the state of California have set similar goals, a movement broadly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureamerica.org\/\">30x30<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe idea conjures images of wilderness areas far from the city, pristine realms unsullied by humans. As environmental science has developed in recent years, however, experts no longer consider this an optimum way to approach conversation on a large scale.\r\n\r\nThe indigenous history of land in the US\u2014and much of the world\u2014reveals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/21\/opinion\/biden-climate-change-conservation.html\">a more fluid boundary<\/a> between nature and humanity. With that in mind, the Biden administration has pledged to work with rural officials and tribal leaders. They will aim to link disparate swathes into larger expanses, furthering the 30x30 effort while respecting the sovereignty of tribes to hunt, fish, and gather on their land.\r\n\r\nThe Center for American Progress has argued that 30x30 plans should expand access to nature. Their report, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/green\/reports\/2020\/07\/21\/487787\/the-nature-gap\/\">The Nature Gap<\/a>,\u201d found people of color are more likely than white people to live in nature-deprived areas, and low-income communities more likely to experience nature deprivation.\r\n\r\nThe effort to more evenly distribute nature\u2019s benefits requires geographic context. Maps layered with all relevant data can reveal inequities in access to greenspace, supporting 30x30 initiatives.","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Esri\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-12T18:47:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Serengeti_Park_Germany_826.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Esri\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\n\t    \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t    \"@graph\": [\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebPage\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts\",\n\t            \"isPartOf\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"datePublished\": \"2021-02-25T14:22:31+00:00\",\n\t            \"dateModified\": \"2024-03-12T18:47:37+00:00\",\n\t            \"description\": \"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.\",\n\t            \"breadcrumb\": {\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis#breadcrumb\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ReadAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": [\n\t                        \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis\"\n\t                    ]\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"BreadcrumbList\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis#breadcrumb\",\n\t            \"itemListElement\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 1,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Home\",\n\t                    \"item\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\"\n\t                },\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"ListItem\",\n\t                    \"position\": 2,\n\t                    \"name\": \"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts\"\n\t                }\n\t            ]\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"WebSite\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Esri\",\n\t            \"description\": \"Esri Newsroom\",\n\t            \"potentialAction\": [\n\t                {\n\t                    \"@type\": \"SearchAction\",\n\t                    \"target\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"EntryPoint\",\n\t                        \"urlTemplate\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}\"\n\t                    },\n\t                    \"query-input\": {\n\t                        \"@type\": \"PropertyValueSpecification\",\n\t                        \"valueRequired\": true,\n\t                        \"valueName\": \"search_term_string\"\n\t                    }\n\t                }\n\t            ],\n\t            \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\"\n\t        },\n\t        {\n\t            \"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t            \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f5f9f3b869508824ec67384815582723\",\n\t            \"name\": \"Jen Van Deusen\",\n\t            \"image\": {\n\t                \"@type\": \"ImageObject\",\n\t                \"inLanguage\": \"en-US\",\n\t                \"@id\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\n\t                \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jen_Van_Deusen-261x261.jpg\",\n\t                \"contentUrl\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jen_Van_Deusen-261x261.jpg\",\n\t                \"caption\": \"Jen Van Deusen\"\n\t            },\n\t            \"description\": \"Jen Van Deusen led the Sustainable Development Industry Solutions team at Esri. She focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and telling and sharing the stories of community stakeholders who are applying GIS to achieve the SDGs. Jen\u2019s background combines business, nonprofit leadership, and cross-sector collaboration in applying technology to achieve sustainable development in the infrastructure\/AEC space, with efforts ranging from energy renewables and optimization for AEC, sustainable infrastructure in small island developing states (SIDS), to clean water access in developing communities. She has lived\/worked internationally, and, as an alum of Brown University and IE University, also works with these institutions to partner with nonprofits and for-profit entrepreneurs to achieve positive impact in under-served communities in Ethiopia.\",\n\t            \"url\": \"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/author\/jen_van_deusen\"\n\t        }\n\t    ]\n\t}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts","description":"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts","og_description":"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","og_site_name":"Esri","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esrigis\/","article_modified_time":"2024-03-12T18:47:37+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Serengeti_Park_Germany_826.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@Esri","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis","name":"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-02-25T14:22:31+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-12T18:47:37+00:00","description":"The Trust for Public Land guides urban conservation, analyzing social and environmental factors to improve public and planetary health.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/smart-cities-greenspace-analysis#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Urban Parks Play a Key Role in Curbing Inequity and Climate Impacts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/","name":"Esri","description":"Esri Newsroom","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/f5f9f3b869508824ec67384815582723","name":"Jen Van Deusen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jen_Van_Deusen-261x261.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Jen_Van_Deusen-261x261.jpg","caption":"Jen Van Deusen"},"description":"Jen Van Deusen led the Sustainable Development Industry Solutions team at Esri. She focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and telling and sharing the stories of community stakeholders who are applying GIS to achieve the SDGs. Jen\u2019s background combines business, nonprofit leadership, and cross-sector collaboration in applying technology to achieve sustainable development in the infrastructure\/AEC space, with efforts ranging from energy renewables and optimization for AEC, sustainable infrastructure in small island developing states (SIDS), to clean water access in developing communities. She has lived\/worked internationally, and, as an alum of Brown University and IE University, also works with these institutions to partner with nonprofits and for-profit entrepreneurs to achieve positive impact in under-served communities in Ethiopia.","url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/author\/jen_van_deusen"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/407842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/407842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"esri-blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/esri-blog-category?post=407842"},{"taxonomy":"esri_blog_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/esri_blog_department?post=407842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}