ABSTRACT 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.
Cappa et al. (Thu,) studied this question.