alklay
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US, you should take up reading thread carefully as I never said that most of the planet's most beautiful urban parks are in NY.
Thanks fiendishlibrarian for that post. Bryant Park is one of the most beautiful urban parks on the planet. And the city is full of even smaller wonders of equal beauty.
I literally cannot think of another that is smaller that is in anywhere near as good shape.
Washington is currently a bit of a mess, although they are improving it.
Madison is a bit incoherent in plan.
Union Square is a disaster.
US, you should take up reading thread carefully as I never said that most of the planet's most beautiful urban parks are in NY.
You really should take up reading your own posts carefully, since you claimed that not only is Bryant Park "one of the most beautiful urban parks on the planet" but that "the city is full of even smaller wonders of equal beauty". "Full of", gosh - where does such hyperbole leave the rest of the planet?
I think the majority of the world's parks are democratically available if you're talking about ones the size of the ravine system.
Anyone who speaks the Queen's language understands that the sentence does not even come close to excluding other parks. Talk about hyperbole!
Oh yes, though the sheer size of that system contributes to Toronto's character - the Don Valley creates a breathing space close to the urban core that sets up the east end as a place somewhat apart, for instance. And as the spine of downtown highrise buildings extending north along Yonge Street has expanded outwards that sense of the Valley as a visual break has grown. The effect of suburban sprawl in the '50s, 60s and '70s, the timing of such boom periods here compared to other cities, the extent to which low rise or high rise construction was part of the various booms that have taken place, the spatial implications of planning guidelines that AnnetteMeetsJane referred to earlier ... all define us.
I'm not a huge fan of Art Deco, but I was thinking more of the Death-Star-like prospect to the West.
The rear end of the library is pretty weird-looking IMO.
I do like the Grace Building, one of New York's best classic 60's skyscrapers.