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Room to Grow
Big urban parks sprouting across the U.S. |
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14 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:47 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Four major cities are poised to create urban parks several times bigger than New York's iconic Central Park, itself a not-at-all-shabby 843 acres. In Orange County, Calif., a portion of a former air station will become a 1,347-acre park; in Memphis, a 4,500-acre former prison farm has been snatched from developers by a conservation easement; Atlanta is trying to add enough parkland to attach nearly every nei ... |
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| Topics: green space, New York City, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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