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Abstract Haley, A.J. and S.L. Carpenter. 2002. A monitoring of social need and the district distribution of municipal recreation space in Phoenix, Arizona. JEMREST 1:14-36. DOI: 10.4029/2002jemrest1no12 This is the first-ever article in the 97 year history of the American recreation and parks movement monitoring, via application of professional standards, social need rankings, and the intra-district distribution of municipal recreation space in an outsized American city. The investigated municipality is Phoenix, Arizona and, more specifically, the six districts of the Phoenix Parks, Recreation, and Library Department (PPRLD). The study is effected by the application of two models of equity; equity as need and equity as equality. Specifically, district comparative scores for social need and municipal recreation space were developed. These scores and their interpretation led to the conclusion that the district distribution of municipal recreation space in Phoenix, Arizona was asymmetric, with an overall dispersed and non cross-catenated relationship between social need and the distribution of municipal recreation. The PPRLD’s individual district municipal recreation per capita space allocations were, across-the-board, found to be substandard.

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