I’m talking about a massive park in the absolute heart of the city. Located such that is naturally surrounded by city high rises. *People are giving examples of parks that are way off in the boonies. I’m trying to say located centrally, heart of the city, you know where the high rises are. Yes I understand nyc has more, the point is centrally located.
Copied by younger cities in North Americ. You know, the cities younger than NYC that could have seen the value of setting aside a large area for parkland before it was developed.
It was! San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park (4.1 km²) is in fact larger than NYC’s Central Park (3.4km²).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park
St. Louis’s Forest Park is bigger still at 5.3 km^2
My favorite urban park by far!
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Swope Park in KC is 7.3 km^2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swope_Park
So is Prospect Park in Brooklyn
My favorite part of Golden Gate Park was seeing the observation tower of the de Young Museum appear in the middle of the massive park. Such a cool design and incredible views.
That one’s pretty neat.
Sorry, I don’t think GGP meets OP’s requirements of huge fuggin sky scrapers next to it.
We’ll have to change to Richmond and Sunset zoning requirements and try again.