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Originally Posted by ATLaffinity
but pocket parks ARE "urban design".
you are never going to have this world class city everyone envisions if people leave midtown/downtown when they turn 30. we don't have to be savannah but it's shocking that we have no parks/playgrounds in midtown.
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thank you. i agree 100%. particularly when one of our greatest assets is the 'green' nature of the city due to the everpresent canopy of trees. it would be an oversight to let midtown develop without an eye toward including frequent, visible and accessible 'public' greenspace.
atlanta is still in the bottom half of major us cities in terms of % land dedicated to public parks. such a low ranking is all the more reason focus on more such spaces, particularly in rapidly growing urban corridors such as midtown and buckhead.