Parks Are Like Icebergs
Dr. Robert Priebe, MCIP, RPPSharing 30+ years of urban park planning practice and academic research with practical knowledge and applications.
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Building an Ark with a Blueprint for a Cargo Ship (August 29, 2025)
This blog uses metaphors as a tool to highlight the precarity of parks under neoliberal policy regimes. I am also experimenting with AI, using NotebookLLM, to generate the above audio. Neither voice is mine.
This discussion focuses on par...
Why Park Configuration Matters (August 4, 2025)
Castledowns Spray Park. Source: City of Edmonton
Ice Sculpture: Why Park Configuration Matters
Context/Intent
Within a land use change process, the goal of the parks planning is to provide functional and safe park spaces configured...
"Parks Are Like Icebergs" Underpinnings (July 28, 2025)
Source: City of Edmonton
Todays Ice Sculpture: "Parks Are Like Icebergs" Underpinnings
My intent is to describe the intersections between my education, research, planning/parks practice, and life experiences that ground my perspective...
Operationalizing the Carney Housing Strategy (May 15, 2025)
The war time house I was “ borne” into!
Vlog Overview
"Parks and Like Icebergs" is an exploration of various aspects related to municipal parks, including urban parks planning and subsequent park service operationalization. Aspects disc...
Parks Civics: The Parks Deep State (March 26, 2025)
Vlog Overview
"Parks and Like Icebergs" is an exploration of various aspects related to municipal parks, including urban parks planning and subsequent park service operationalization. Aspects discussed include policy, strategic planning,...
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After my studies in the late 70s and 80s at Brock and Queens Universities, my 32 year practice focussed on the co-production of parks with the community. I attained my PhD in 2019 while simultaneously teaching urban park planning at the U of Alberta.
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