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Article: International flair: U.S. park and recreation departments realize it really is a small world after all.(GLOBAL RELATIONS)
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- Parks & Recreation
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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LET'S FACE IT: For the United States, most of the last decade was spent in a fairly isolationist frame of mind. We did our thing, the rest of the world did its. Not a whole lot of cross-continent collaboration.
But that time is gone. We're not mentioning any names, but the man now in charge is a bit more cosmopolitan than his predecessor. Things have changed.
And public park and recreation departments seem to be falling in line. As readers will see in the following case studies, park and recreation professionals are learning that great ideas can come from beyond our own borders.
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