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The Topic
Parks and Open Spaces refers to those areas set aside by the city, state, or federal government for public access and protection of natural resources. Issues relate to the creation, preservation, restoration, maintenance, and best use of these spaces.
The Context
With more than 27,000 acres of parks, playgrounds, beaches and other recreational areas, New York City has the largest city park system in the U.S. (Add to that a state park in every borough, the Gateway National Recreation Area and four botanical gardens.) Yet the city has fewer acres of green space per person than any other major American city, and many neighborhoods lack parks. Community gardens on vacant city lots -- there are more than 750 -- are often the only green oases in low-income, minority communities.

Best Books About Parks

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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 1999. 479 pp.)

This richly anecdotal chronicle of the forces and the characters who transformed the American landscape in the 19th century. more info...

Inside City Parks
by Peter Harnik (Trust for Public Land and the Urban Land Institute, . 215 pp.)

Analyzes park systems in the nation's 25 largest cities based on funding, facilities, and amount of land, then looks behind the numbers to the philosophies, politics and practices that shape the park systems. more info...

Private Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience
by Jerold S. Kayden (John Wiley & Sons, 2000.)

The principal research purpose was to evaluate New York City's 39-year pioneering program of using zoning law to encourage the provision of 503 publicly accessible plazas, parks, arcades, atria, and other public spaces at private office and residential towers in the city's densest commercial and residential precincts. more info...

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