Chicagoist: Let's Put More Garden in "City in the Garden"

NSH

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:59:47 -0600

Kelly I love parks, and I'm all for more parks. But my opinion is we have sooo many parks that are underutilized or just not places you would feel secure walking through. If we can get our park system back to what it was pre War, I think everyone would be happy and content. Peace. (p.s. walk 5 blocks south from state and randolph and you can hang out at Pritzker Park)

Kelly

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:19:34 -0600

NSH, Yes, yes, I know, Millenium Park....I am talking about Green amidst the Concrete, not off to the side of it. To me all the parks along the lakefront, melds into one big park. And what if you live furtther west, then you have nothing, or you have to drive/bike/CTA to the parks along the lakefront...LAAMME

curmudgeon

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:49 -0600

NYC has a REALLY BIG park, but when I was there 3 years ago that's the only park I saw. I was strucks by how green space seemed to be limited to Central Park. It made me appreciate Chicago a lot more than I did before I went east.

NSH

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:08:46 -0600

Kelly, Next time you're walking about at State and Randolph, head east 3 blocks, I think they have a park over there.

DC1974

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:33:47 -0600

I believe Burnham's plan was to have an outer ring of parks (what today we'd call a greenway). That's why there is a Diversey Parkway. It was supposed to be a linear park that extended back to a another set of parks through the Western sides down to connect with parklands on the South Side.

kelly Gray

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:30:00 -0600

I always wondered why everyone, including (most vocally) our major, was always bragging about having so many parks in Chicago. Obviously, we have Lincoln Park, which runs the length of the north side, but its so skinny! Compared to Central Park it is nothing! Also, our downtown area is pretty much scarce of green space, whenever there is an area to fill you can bet it will be condos or some other money making development. Green spaces don’t make money. How great would it be if Block 37 was turned into a park instead of a mall!!

Spence

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:35:11 -0600

Also, take into account that LA's and NYC's population is 2x and 3X that of Chicago, respectively. Don't get me wrong though, I'm all for more parks and the exhibit sounds very interesting.

Moon

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:08:01 -0600

Does that take into account that L.A. has a lot more square footage total than Chicago? L.A. is 469 square miles, New York is 303 square miles, Chicago is 227 square miles. I guess NYC has a lot of parks, though. My part of Chicago is a park wonderland, but I know when you get to the west side, it's all concrete. We should work on that.