"Parks were almost never created for poor and working-class people.
They were used primarily as a real-estate development tool.”
“What I always try to remember is there was this profoundly undemocratic
history of these public spaces. They weren’t made for everybody, they
were really made to shape development and control how people navigated
the city, but people never let that stand.”
“If we think about parks this way, they’re either created to make a ritzy neighborhood or to displace an ‘unsavory’ neighborhood in the eyes of the displacers, or both.”
Marika Plater says.
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