Benefits and Impacts of Urban Parks: Economic, Social, and Environmental Perspectives

This report explores the economic, social, and environmental benefits and impacts of urban parks. It discusses the job creation, cost to taxpayers, attraction of new businesses, gentrification, community development, and environmental factors associated with urban parks. The report also provides recommendations for improving urban parks.

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Executive Summary
Urban park is the green structure that is being made in the metropolitan area. It is a
delineated open park space area which covers the vegetation and water. It is being largely being
made for the public. This park is going top be designed in the city and it will have various
economical, social and environmental impact there are several benefits of the park like economic
benefit is job creation, cost to tax payer and attraction of new business. The social benefits are
gentrification, community development while the environmental benefits are temperature control
and maintaining biodiversity. In this report there has been recommended that the building of
concourse, stage theatre and environmental awareness programmes can be made.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Economic Perspectives...........................................................................................................4
Social Perspectives.................................................................................................................6
Impact on environmental factors............................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
According to Cecil C. Konijnendijk and et. al., (2013) Urban is the metropolitan areas
which comprise of all the facilities with advancement and technologies with various corporation
and techniques. Urban park is the metropolitan public park it aims out to be the important park
which is being incorporated in all the areas in order to remove the pollution. The main aim
behind this park is to increase the production of oxygen and with that to provide all the services
to the individuals like sports activities, cultural areas, playing space etc (Chen and et. al., 2018).
The urban park will there by deliberately helps out to attain several benefits like outdoor spaces
and will remove the pollution in the environment. Urban park helps out to maintain the
biodiversity in all the areas and creates a major effective environment in which they maintains
the global and the green zone area which accord to imply all the important aspects needed for the
individual in a resting park. According to Matthias Braubach and et. al., (2017) The leading
benefits of the urban park is that it helps to create a calm and soothing environment in all the
areas and give the individuals a space that helps them out to do there regular activities through
which they get peace. The major challenges that can be confronted in making such park is
budgets , technical construction, cost benefit etc. as in order to build a urban park in any
metropolitan area it complies to make the a proper budget with that all the permissions from the
government so as to develop it in an authorized manner.
This report will deal with all the social, economical and the environmental factors that
has been implied in making of urban park with there further impacts. There will be analysis of
the technical approaches with various conduction of environmental and economical factors that
are needed to be considered in order to make a park, it covers all the segments which are major
and utterly important areas by which the urban park has to be made. In this report the
recommendation will also be provided for the improvement.
MAIN BODY
Economic Perspectives
According to Melville Saayman and et. al., (2020) Urban park is being created to attract
the lots of visitors so that they can come and visit this park. This part will help to boost the
country's economy and also help to evolve the collection of foreign corrency in the country. This
park will help to meet the all expectations of the government and also help to enhance the

economic growth rate of the country. The value of this urban park is more becasue it can help to
build large scale of economic development (Kabisch and et. al., 2021). The development of
urban park have many impact which are illustrated below-
Job creation- This urban park can provide the positive impact on the country
development and also give lots of job opportunities to those who are unemployeed and interested
to do work. This park can provide the long term and short term impact both in the job creation
and also provide many employment chances to the local area people. With the help of job, people
will be able to fulfill thier short term and long term needs. People of that area can work properly
and improve their living standard. For completing their long term needs, all the people can feel
secure about their jobs and also work properly to maintain the security and cleanness of urban
park so that massive nunmber of visitors and foreigners can visit and enjoy the beautiful view of
that park and create beautiful memories. The establishment of this park can address the
requirement of the people so that they can accomplish their short term goals effectively and also
cosnider the long term goals. Job creration is considered as the huge opportunity that can help to
provide the jobs and also aid in the ecobomic development of the country.
Advantages- This will there by help lot of workers and the people unemployed to get the
new jobs and tends to increwasxe the economic growth of that areas.
Disadvantage- futher this will be fopr shorter period of time and will effectr all the
lifestyle after the work being done.
cost to the taxpayer of building the park- Second thing which can impact is the cost to
the taxpayer. It is also prominent factor to measure the cost and estimate that how much cost
needs to be ascertained in order to build this urban park. Government can hire many financial
advisers who are very much capable and expert to measure the cost that is going to spend in the
urban park project. Cost can provide the effective impact on the creation of this urban park and it
is also essential to prepare full prove budget so that step by step record can be maintained of all
the cost and resources which are necessary for building this urban park. According to Leandro
(2021)Financial manager can consider the cost of the taxpayer and also analyse the resources that
are useful for the park creation. Urban park is considered as a big project that can provide the
positive impact on the country's working and also helps to create the positive and labella image
in the market. Financial manager can consider all the cost and margin and allocate the budget to

the contractor so that they can easily follow all the cost structure and use all the cost on the
necessary resources (Gren and Andersson, 2018).
Advantages- This tax will help the government to increase there value and the asset for
the country and also will be a source emerged out in taxation for the government.
Disadvantage- The tax there by will lead to make all the individual being affected by it as
in one or the other way it will be collected by the people only.
Attraction of new businesses to the area- This is also considered the third way that can
affect the creation of the urban park because this park can affect the new business and also their
areas. This park provide various chances to the new business and also generate and evaluate
many factors that can directly cause the impact on the new businesses. This park will attract new
businesses and also the visitors. This urban park will create various upcoming opportunities to
those people who want to start their own business so that they can start their business in this park
like cloth, food, activities, games and other types of businesses that can help to enhance the good
living standard for all.
Advantages- By making of this urban park there has been analysed that it will create a
attractive area for all the person and will also build the image of the areas and increase the tourist
to be coming over there.
Disadvantage- As the tourist will increase there will somehow be the threat of damage of
the property in any manner and that can also make the area a bit monotonous after a lead of time.
Social Perspectives
According to Brown (2018) Building an Urban park is very beneficial and considering
the social perfective of building them has proved to be very beneficial. There are many social
perspective of building them. The two main perspective are explained below:
Gentrification: This mainly is the transformation of the neighbourhood from a very low
to a high value. The building of an urban park add value to the society by attracting wealthier
people which also increases the value of the properties nearby the park. It develops the society as
various social changes are made which are mostly influenced by the demographic changes that
takes place with the building of an urban park. A healthy lifestyle is attained by the people of the
society as they get many opportunities along with the coming of a park.
Community Development: Building of an urban parks helps in the development of the
community as the space is used for the community engagement . Urban park will help in

supporting the community engagement as it will provide the residents, a venue where they can
participate in and have attachment to their community. There are several other benefits which are
enjoyed by the communities which helps in the development of the community by building of an
urban park (Crompton, 2020). It raises the value of the property and attract more residence which
creates an environment which is lively and suitable. The community due to the building of park
is over enthusiastic and stick together by performing various activities in the park.
The above two explained are the social perspective of building an urban park. This park
do not only provide with employment opportunities and other benefits, but also transform the
society and add value to it. The living standard of the people is upgraded and the community is
developed as a new venue is provided to the people of community for their engagement.
Impact on environmental factors
According to Neiles and Mertz, (2020) In the urban park the major environmental factor
which helps the society is it helps out to reduce the pollution as there has been acknowledged
that when the urban park is being designed there has been analysed that it creates a green and a
clear environment through which all the effective greenery is being maintained. There has been
analysed that all the walls of trees and the plantation helped further in maintaining the noise
pollution as that parks lower down the sounds of the vehicles and helps the persons to meditate
in a soothing way.
The temperature of that areas is also being maintained that helps to develop proper
vegetation and creates an abrupt and proper biodiversity by attaining the calm and green
environment (Zhang and Ta, 2019) ). The controlled temperature makes the children and the
individual to come over there and relax out in there comforting manner.
As by the enhanced biodiversity and the controlled heat and varies pollution the urban
park attracts most of the individual in there varies recourse and fragments. The park is being
made for all age groups and the environment prevents the major air, noise and soil pollution that
helped the societies and the individuals residing there to come over there.
CONCLUSION
To conclude the report above, Urban parks are the delineated spaces that have open areas
and are mostly dominated by the water and vegetation. These parks are mainly reserved by the

public use and are locally known as Municipal parks/ gardens. They works as the lungs of a city
in which they are situated, helps in fighting pollution and the encouragement of biodiversity.
Parks in a community are very important as the urban park adds value to the society and
provide with a better lifestyle. The parks helps in reducing health cost of the people. It helps in
creating job opportunities for the people which can either be long term or short term
employment. The parks always make sure that the needs of the society and demands are being
fulfilled so that the park is used by the community on daily basis. The parks also have huge
impact upon environment as the air is cleaned and the health of the people are also improved as
the parks in the cities work as an air purifier of the area.. This also attract new businesses to the
area which further helps in the economic development of the country.
It is further concluded that Urban parks adds value to the society and is of great benefit
for the place/city and also for the individuals. It helps in the improving of the lifestyle of the
people and upliftment of the society with various opportunities. This will be a new attraction for
the whole place and people will be more enthusiastic about it.

RECOMMENDATIONS
From the above analysis, the recommendations made are as follows: Recommendation 1: It is recommended that the park must have a concourse which can
be used when in need. The government can use that place for various activities and can
generate profit out of it which can be used in further improvements at the park. The
concourse will add value to the park and in future it can also be converted into a small
garden to relax and enjoy. Recommendation 2: It is recommended that the park must include a place which can be
used as a theatrical venue or stage. This way the people of community can have activities
together which will be helpful in creating bond between the people. This will increase in
the community engagement and also will be beneficial for the development of society.
 Recommendation 3: It is recommended that the park may have a programmes that spread
and create environmental awareness. This can be done by conducting events and letting
people know of the importance of environment. The government can also make people
learn, how the trees are planted and various other such activities. This will raise
awareness and also people will be motivated through which the environment will get
better.

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