One Man’s Plan to Transform a Major City Into a National Park
An ambitious project highlights the importance of urban nature.
What is a park? For most of us, a park is a place apart—a reserve of nature in a world increasingly dominated by human activities and arranged to fulfill human needs and desires. But a park is also for people— a place of refuge for the human soul, which tends to wither when long separated from green and growing things.
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