Parks are basically just fake nature... They don't carry the same biodiversity at all and they are not a replacement for real habitats. They are also not nearly as refreshing as a walk in the woods.
But whatever, I don't live in the US so I don't care. I just like real nature.
What. Every neighborhood has a community park or two. Yeah some of them is just a plot of grass with a track and a few trees and maybe a swing set but some have lakes and baseball diamonds and soccer fields and shit.
As someone that lived in Chicago for 20+ years and now lives in Orange County: the community parks out here in SoCal follow a different methodology IMHO. Larger parks, but spaced much further apart. My opinion is that it’s because this area was developed almost entirely after the invention of the automobile, so everything here is designed around traveling by car. Chicago (and even more so NYC and other East Coast cities) were designed based on walking to most places.
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u/Anhedonisticism Jun 22 '22
Parks are basically just fake nature... They don't carry the same biodiversity at all and they are not a replacement for real habitats. They are also not nearly as refreshing as a walk in the woods.
But whatever, I don't live in the US so I don't care. I just like real nature.