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The city supplies underused lots, faculty and students from Binghamton University’s Neighborhood Project provide guidance, and the United Way supports fundraising. Neighborhood groups maintain parks to strengthen ongoing neighbor relationships while reducing municipal maintenance costs. 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The city makes vacant lots and other neglected spaces available for neighborhoods to turn into parks that residents design and build with the assistance of faculty and students from Binghamton University’s Binghamton Neighborhood Project. The United Way of Broome County assists with funding required for implementation. Neighborhood groups help maintain their parks, which increases ongoing interactions among neighbors and reduces city maintenance costs. While it is too early to access the DYOP Competition fully, it provides a science-based model for other cities seeking to coordinate efforts around large-scale community projects. Keywords: Binghamton Neighborhood Project; Design Your Own Park Competition; Elinor Ostrom; Evolution Institute; neighborhood organizations; park design  \nThe Design Your Own Park Competition (DYOP), launched in 2010, is a collaborative effort among Binghamton University’s Binghamton Neighborhood Project, the United Way of Broome County, and the city of Binghamton, New York, to enhance opportunities for unstructured play on a citywide scaleby empowering neighborhoods to create parks of their own design. Like most American cities, especially those in the Northeast, Binghamton is experiencing economic hardship, but the city is rich in at least one respect—it has many vacant lots and other neglected spaces. By making these available to neighborhood groups, the collaborating organizations seek to turn a liability into an asset.  \nNeighborhoods typically are not well suited for collective action. From the richest gated communities to the poorest ghettos, most people scarcely know their neighbors. But there is nothing like a common goal such as creating a  \n538  \nAmerican Journal of Play, volume 3, number 4. © 2011 by The Strong. Contact David Sloan Wilson [at dwilson@binghamtom.edu](at dwilson@binghamtom.edu)  \nneighborhood park to bring people together. Good, old-fashioned, practical know-how and a reliance on the scientific literature about what makes groups function well or poorly can help organize neighborhoods. For this particular project, Binghamton University faculty members participating in the Binghamton Neighborhood Project provide the scientific expertise, and their students serve as eager helpers.  \nCreating and maintaining parks requires money, of course, and city budgets have lately been stressed to their limits. But people and organizations are still willing to give to good causes, and the United Way is well organized to coordinate fund-raising efforts. Thus the United Way of Broome County joined the city and the Binghamton Neighborhood Project to help turn residents’ dream parks into reality. The fact that neighborhood groups are expected to keep up their own parks as much as possible presents another win-win situation by relieving the city of maintenance costs while providing a basis for ongoing relations among the neighbors.  \nAlthough DYOP is only a little more than a year old and cannot be called a proven success, it still provides a model for other cities because of the scope of its vision and the scientific principles that have contributed to its design.  \nThe Science behind the Design Your Own Park Competition  \nNeighborhood parks have been built by people simply coming together, without the help of scientists or a citywide program such as DYOP. The rationale of DYOP to promote neighborhood parks, in fact, seems clear enough without any scientific principles. Nevertheless, philosophical and scientific issues dwell beneath the surface of intuitive understanding. Why do people ","cbCaidwzcTv2NJp2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidwzcTv2NJp2","pdf",101980,13,"English","# The Design Your Own Park Competition\n## The Science behind the Design Your Own Park Competition\n## The Evolution Institute and Scientific Principles\n## The importance of allowing local groups to manage their own affairs","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the DYOP Competition aim to address in Binghamton?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses the lack of opportunities for unstructured play by turning vacant lots and neglected spaces into neighborhood parks designed and built by residents.\"},{\"question\":\"How do DYOP partners support neighborhoods to create and sustain parks?\",\"answer\":\"The city makes available underused spaces, Binghamton University faculty and students provide expertise and assistance, and the United Way helps coordinate and fundraise for implementation; neighborhood groups maintain the parks afterward.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article claim DYOP can serve as a model for other cities?\",\"answer\":\"Although not yet a proven success, it offers a scalable vision and is grounded in scientific principles explaining when groups cooperate effectively and how communities manage shared resources.\"}]","The Design Your Own Park Competition - A Citywide Model for Neighborhood Empowerment | PDF",1792074545,33]