Everything is just cement, gravel and metal with some scant wood details 
I'm sure that somewhere in the US, parks still follow a "place for people to be" design philosophy
But good fucking god, every new park I see lacks:
- shade
- seats
- drinking water
- aesthetic warmth, or even just anything interesting
im not jealous you're jealousReally though, the oldest park in my town is nice. It's got enough of all the bulletpoints, and it's usually around the right level of crowded for a park. Every "park" in town built then has been some public-private partnership nonsense that winds up looking more like a parking lot than a park
Yeah all the parks in my town are nice because they're old and it's a very progressive inner ring suburb
Hexbear: "We must destroy lawns"
Capitalists: destroy the lawns
Hexbear: "Noooo not like that"
smh when will you loony lefties ever learn that when you ask for something to be improved somewhat, it will only make things worse.
Back in my day this is all we had. You fell and busted your head open and that was on you. The pipes were all lead and all we had to eat for dinner was unseasoned chicken. This all built character and a big reason why my kids don't call me anymore
In my day we had a big metal slide. It was seated on concrete, got scorching hot in the summer, and had minimal guardrails and we loved it dangnabbit.
That seems intentionally designed to cause injuries. Jesus.
"Most sandboxes contain mainly vomit, urine, feces and animal feces."
I wonder if they're planning on a bamboo garden and have 1/4'' tank armor in the ground to contain it
- Like all of the best parks it is good for one thing: leaving cars there
Every new park around me is either named “Veterans Memorial” or one that honors the only good cops…
At my park, the only trees are on placed arbitrarily on the grass. If you go jogging you have to go early in the morning or late evening to avoid sunburns or the heat in general. It’s literally just a giant field of grass with some amenities (playground, dining tables) and that’s it. The trees don’t even cover the benches. It seems like if you’re poor, American architecture and urban design is just intended to make you miserable.
In the town I grew up in, the park was built over the corpse of a farm next to a lake. The farmhouse long since destroyed and the foundations covered by a playground. The edges of the lake are crowded by a peculiar weed that tangles around anything that falls in, this makes it harder for an adult to get back out unassisted and nigh impossible for a child to do the same.
There are, of course, no rails around the concrete pavement that rings the lake.
urban jungle
