The global pandemic has created major challenges for urban parks and protected areas around access, budgeting and maintenance amongst other things. However demand and the awareness of the importance of urban green spaces has arguably never been higher and this creates interesting opportunities for post-pandemic thinking.
This roundtable, part of the Urban Parks, Urban Futures series, is a chance to hear from two European cities, Tirana and Glasgow, that were each due to host major conservation and parks events in 2020. The conversation will be anchored in a discussion around three key questions:
This conversation will also feed into the global discussion on Urban Parks, Urban Futures taking place from 16:45 (CET) on Friday 20th November at the World Urban Parks 2020 Virtual World Congress
Moderator: Dominic Regester, Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar
Speakers: Erinda Fino, Director of the Agency For Parks and Recreation of the Municipality of Tirana and Dominic Hall, Assistant Director Operations, The Conservation Volunteers, Glasgow
This lecture was supported in part by the Jacques Delors Lectureship endowment fund.