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Planning municipal cemeteries for life

by DRYSDALE F
Planning municipal cemeteries for life Existing cemetery land may be optimized with creative cemetery design to maximize return on investment and meet community needs. Above, Hillside Landing in Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Edmonton, Alberta) provides an excellent example.
Published in March 2015 - Page 21

Cemeteries are for the living. We place the remains of our loved ones and memorialize them there. Cemeteries are important assets in the municipal infrastructure – park-like open spaces with a community presence exceeding their physical dimensions.

Cemetery Fiscal Sustainability

A key difference between cemeteries and other municipal open spaces is that cemeteries cannot be easily (or ever) repurposed. This limitation makes planning for the fiscal and physical sustainability of cemeteries an important priority and

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