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what is a park for?
This week a red-hot public quarrel erupted over the proposed eviction of the HANC recycling center that has been occupying a half acre of park land next to Kezar Stadium for the past 30 years or so. Recreation and Park … Continue reading
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free admission?
On August 7 this year, the Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park began to charge admission for the first time since it opened to the public seventy years ago. Nobody likes to have to pay for something that was … Continue reading
the machine in the garden?
When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, they depressed the four cross-town roads below the grade of the park, to prevent the hustle and bustle of city traffic from interfering … Continue reading
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turning sewage sludge into gold!?
Turns out there is fascinating precedent for water recycling in Golden Gate Park! The following information is from a paper entitled: “The Beautification and Irrigation of Golden Gate Park with Activated Sludge Effluent,” written in 1937 by Charles Gilman Hyde, Professor … Continue reading
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were those trees planted or left there?
On a recent afternoon, walking along the fern-lined Redwood Trail of the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, enjoying the musty scent of crushed redwood bark beneath my feet and the transcendental light filtering through the foliage high … Continue reading
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golden gate park: views from the thicket 