In Praise Of.......Urban Greenspaces (pic heavy)

marmar

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Sun Oct-11-09 07:55 AM
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In Praise Of.......Urban Greenspaces (pic heavy)

Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:53 AM by marmar

Hyde Park, London

Central Park, New York

Lincoln Park, Chicago

Tiergarten, Berlin

http://www.bublitzphoto.com/site/galleries/Aerial/Aerial%20-%20Belle%20Isle,%20Detroit%20River.jpg
Belle Isle, Detroit

Vondelpark, Amsterdam

Piedmont Park, Atlanta

High Park, Toronto

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Bois de Boulogne, Paris

The Retiro, Madrid

Griffith Park, Los Angeles

Parc Mont-Royal, Montreal

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unhappycamper

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:00 AM
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1. Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Arboretum

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:09 AM
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2. beautiful. thanks marmar. K&R

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vadawg

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:10 AM
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3. nice pics, but why live with just that little patch of greenery

better to live where its all grass and stones or sand etc etc

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marmar

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:13 AM
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5. Sorry. Chronic urbanophile here. I like to visit the park on a Saturday afternoon....

Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:14 AM by marmar

..... and return to the concrete and noise by the evening.

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vadawg

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:20 AM
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7. i guess we can all be glad that we all like different things

imagine if we all wanted to live in the city or all wanted to be rural, personally i get concrete sick after being in any urban area for a while but my buddy used to get agrophobic unless he had buildings all around...

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imdjh

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:18 AM
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6. Here's your sand

Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:19 AM by imdjh

Downtown Saint Petersburg Florida

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nashville_brook

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Sun Oct-11-09 11:23 AM
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15. if everyone lived where it's only grass and stones, there'd be no grass and stones left.

urban centers protect wild places.

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vadawg

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Sun Oct-11-09 11:33 AM
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16. yup that was my point, id hate to have everyone in the city decide to move to the mountains

very quickly it would be overun and would not be wild anymore...

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nashville_brook

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Sun Oct-11-09 11:44 AM
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17. i've actually been mooning over downtown condos in Orlando (where i'm at now)

and the reason why, is in Central Florida one the best things nature-wise is our storms -- weather watching. which, is really hard to do from the ground. i'd love to live just a few stories higher to get the view, the clouds, the lightning and the beautiful blue sky.

i'd do it in a heartbeat if i didn't have dogs who need their inside/outside life.

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vadawg

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Sun Oct-11-09 11:58 AM
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19. yup i am a couple of thousand feet up and love to watch the thunderstorms roll in

my wife laughs at me as even here i need to sleep outdoors at least a couple of nights a week or i start to get stircrazy... the only times i have had to stay in urban areas i have had major issues with adjusting to all the construction and noise..

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nashville_brook

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Sun Oct-11-09 03:26 PM
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20. it's funny, when i knew i was leaving Nashville i went on a coast-to-coast road trip

with my dog. car camped all over the southwest, California, Colorado and some of the 'flyover' states. and everywhere i went i asked how the thunderstorms were. turns out, there's not many storms in the desert! who knew? i grew up in Central Florida, and, there's nothing i love more than a violent thunderstorm.

it was not on my agenda, but i ended up right where i was born in the heart of thunderstorm land.

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eppur_se_muova

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Sun Oct-11-09 11:51 AM
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18. But if *everyone* moves there, then it is all gone ...

and the cycle repeats itself again.

Better to leave the wild wild.

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Heidi

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:11 AM
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4. Parco Sempione, Milan.

:hi:

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snagglepuss

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:31 AM
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8. Beautiful. Nice way to start Sunday. Thanks.

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jacko_be

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:38 AM
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9. idea's and reality

http://www.nmu.nl/upload/UserFiles/Image/BB_stad_en_groen(1).jpg

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aikoaiko

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:44 AM
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10. Savannah, GA and Forsythe Park

Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:56 AM by aikoaiko

Older section with fountain.

Newer section with open spaces for recreatin and concerts.

And then there are the squares.....http://www.ourcoast.com/savannahcityguide/visiting/tours/savannah.shtml

...where you find interesting people with whom to chit-chat.

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malaise

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Sun Oct-11-09 08:47 AM
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11. Lovely

Thanks

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Morning Dew

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Sun Oct-11-09 09:07 AM
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12. Sometimes it seems like Minneapolis is all park

but it's only about 16%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis#Parks_and_recreation.

Minneapolis tore down so many historic buildings, but at least we have good parks.

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xchrom

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Sun Oct-11-09 09:24 AM
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13. thanks from another urbanophile

:applause:

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AnOhioan

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Sun Oct-11-09 10:58 AM
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14. Cleveland Metroparks

22,000 acres in 16 reservations. I was fortunate enough to grow up down the street from one of them. Spent a good part of my childhood there.

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Sun Oct-11-09 03:34 PM
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21. You beat me to it. "The Emerald Necklace"

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