SESSION
Recreation planning and its role in placemaking, healthy communities, and resilient ecologies in the West
This session will explore parks and park systems as community infrastructure and the role they can play in contextually-relevant placemaking, forging healthy communities, and utilizing open space for fortifying resilient urban ecologies in the American West. The session will center the discussion around two case studies of a park design in Bozeman, Montana and the City of Cheyenne’s park system.
The two studies will compare and contrast how parks and park systems can act as vital infrastructure through ecological resiliency planning, geographically and culturally relevant park design, and supporting and attracting a diverse population.
PRESENTER(S)
Ashley Hejtmanek, AICP, PLA
Design Workshop
Ashley Hejtmanek is an Associate at Design Workshop in Aspen, Colorado. Her landscape architecture and planning backgrounds have helped her effectively link design and community engagement in localities throughout the West, ranging from public park design, community‐wide park system planning and the redevelopment of marginalized spaces. Ashley is a graduate of Penn State University with a degree in Landscape Architecture and a graduate of the University of Virginia with a master’s degree in urban and environmental planning.