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observat ions and opinions about new or leans winter 2012

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is i t where the real makes i ts last stand or where the imagined mocks the real?

is i t where the real makes i ts last stand or where the imagined mocks the real?

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1. Tad Gormley stadium seats 26,500. 2. sydney & Walda Besthoff sculpture Garden displays 60 sulptures by major 20th century artists. 3. new Orleans Museum of Art is home to 40,000 works of art. 4. Grass covered mounds on neutral ground spell out the word “welcome” in Braille by artist Molly Gochman. 5. Big lake is 50 acres of fishing, rowboats, peddle boats, and one gondola. 6. 130 crepe Myrtles frame the entrance to the park.

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Over 1 million individuals enjoyed 1,300 acres of CITY PARK last year, home to the largest collection of mature live oaks in the world.

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1. Tad Gormley stadium seats 26,500. 2. sydney & Walda Besthoff sculpture Garden displays 60 sulptures by major 20th century artists. 3. new Orleans Museum of Art is home to 40,000 works of art. 4. Grass covered mounds on neutral ground spell out the word “welcome” in Braille by artist Molly Gochman. 5. Big lake is 50 acres of fishing, rowboats, peddle boats, and one gondola. 6. 130 crepe Myrtles frame the entrance to the park.

Over 1 million individuals enjoyed 1,300 acres of CITY PARK last year, home to the largest collection of mature live oaks in the world.

a natural setting for human artifice — and even art?

a natural setting for human artifice — and even art?

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a playground of freedom

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A wild or a garden? A field or a lawn?

A natural setting for human artifice—and even art?

Is it where the real makes its last stand or where the imagined mocks the real?

A series of roofless rooms with thin walls,

carefully designed to segregate one activity from another

while giving the impression of a single, open space?

A playground of freedom or a schoolhouse of regulations?

An architecture of nostalgia, a last preserve of the wilderness sacrificed to advancing civilization,

to the grid of streets and buildings that drove out its wildlife and felled its trees?

A natural oasis sprung up in the midst of a concrete desert or an artificial rendering of the natural world?

A refuge from commerce or a store to sell nature?

A reminder that we are smaller than nature or that we have mastered it?

A flowering chapel to revive ourselves or a green mausoleum of what we have lost?

What exact ly is a c ity park? by John Biguenet

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A natural setting for human artifice—and even art?

A ferry to another world or a bridge that begins and ends on the same side of the river?

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