2016, Volume 18, Issue 5
Strategic Study of CAE >> 2016, Volume 18, Issue 5 doi: 10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.05.014
Experience and Inspiration from Construction of United States National Parks and Gateway Communities
Planning Department, City of Aurora, Colorado 80124, USA
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Abstract
This year is the one-hundredth-year anniversary of the United States National Park Service (US NPS). Over the last one hundred years, the national park system of the United States had become an important national asset that had played a significant role in stimulating economic development and growth as well as enhancing quality of life, especially for the gateway communities. This paper provides a brief overview of the US NPS, including its history, mission, and key planning process and approaches. This paper focuses the discussion on the interdependent relationship between the gateway communities and the national park system, as well as the issues and challenges associated with the recent significant growth of tourists in the parks and of visitors and residents in the gateway communities for both those communities and the parks. This paper uses Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) and the town of Estes Park, RNMP's main gateway community, as a case to study and discuss specific issues and successful experiences, and provides a list of lessons learned that can be considered by the research project of the Qinba Mountain Area green & circular development.
Keywords
US National Park Service ; gateway communities ; Rocky Mountain National Park ; the town of Estes Park
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