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Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.
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Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of land preserved in their original state. If asked to discuss the issue at all, many laymen have maintained this much, that parks are bits of nature created only in the sense that some decision was made not to build on the land. Many are surprised to learn that parks that an artifact conceived and deliberated as carefully as public buildings, wit
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― The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
― The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America
