Crowd Involvement in Pocket Parks for Urban Resilience: How to Motivate Citizens to Contribute With Data, Ideas, and Funds?

The spread of pocket parks (PPs) in urban built environments has emerged as a way to mitigate and adapt to climate change-related challenges and achieve resilient urban environments. However, the construction and management of PPs face resource constraints. In response, this study explores the role of crowd-based phenomena, i.e., citizen science, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding, to mobilize resources for the development of PPs. Through an in-field experiment with 109 participants in New York City (USA), we find that exposure to detailed information significantly increases citizens' propensity to engage in crowd-based contributions. These outcomes highlight the finding that citizens, if provided with detailed information regarding PPs, can be a potential resource to be tapped for collecting data, ideas, and funds, favoring the spread of PPs and, in general, fostering urban resilience.