Parks help cities – but only if people use them
- Written by Thaisa Way, Professor, Landscape Architecture, History, and Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
Tiny Paley Park, surrounded by skyscrapers in New York City, introduced the concept of a 'pocket park' in dense urban centers.Aleksandr Zykov/Flickr, CC BY-SAIn cities, access to parks is strongly linked with better health for both people and neighborhoods.
Children suffer higher rates of obesity when they grow up in urban areas without a park in...
