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City parks are wasteful and useless - says people who have never lived within walking distance of a good park and drive everywhere
They arent wasteful or useless, but they do tend to suck due to the sheer numbers of people who use them.
I believe, the solution to that is more parks.
Supplementary solution: abolish billboards and oversized/tall signposts.
Hawaii did this, and it looks amazing. Other states have banned billboards too.
This actually does seem to work. Vancouver has a LOT of parks, and I don't find them crowded or underutilized. It's a nice balance where there are people to talk to but you can find your own quiet spot too
https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/parks-gardens-and-beaches.aspx
Apparently we have 250 parks, making up 11% of Vancouver's land mass
Plus they’re not wild at all. It’s still a lot of pavement-touching. Especially when there’s signs telling you not to walk on the grass.
America really sucks. Go look at my home city of Edinburgh on a map, that's how you do a city
Princes Gardens going from a dump in the 1800s to a nice park is quite a transformation
That's not a park, then, it's a nature preserve.
I agree those are much better than parks
So... you don't want to touch the grass?
I want to touch dirt. I want mud squishing between my toes and the cool wind whipping over my naked body. I want to feast on wild edibles while I gaze at a sky so full of stars it hurts to look at them. I want my neighbors to have paws and fur and feathers and scales. I want any signs I see to be curiosities or raw materials and to divorce myself from the human concept of time. I want to not see another person for months, and even then they are on a distant hilltop and quickly flee.
So... a national park, then?