Do you often spend time with family or friends in parks?
Do you have a favorite one in your neighborhood? What are the parks like in your community? What do you and your family and friends do there? What is your favorite park? Why? What memories do you have of spending time in parks when you were younger? Tell a story about one such memory. What do parks mean to you as a teenager? Do you hang out with friends at parks? Play basketball? Or meet up with family for a barbecue or picnic?
Describe your favorite park in your community or elsewhere. What makes this park special?
Why do you think it is important that communities have access to parks?
Do you think your community has adequate access to parks and green space? Why or why not? How do you think your life be different if there were more parks in your area? Fewer?
According to this article, “Olmsted understood the promise of the park as a social force that would become an amenity in city life over the decades. In his view, parks were imbued with an exquisite kind of healing power. They were beautiful, born of nature, reimagined by man. He idealized them as literal common grounds forging communities, unstratified by race or class or faith.” Do the parks you visit play this role? Do they offer “healing power”? Are they places where barriers of race, class and faith are broken down? Why or why not?
Describe your favorite park in your community or elsewhere. What makes this park special?
Why do you think it is important that communities have access to parks?
Do you think your community has adequate access to parks and green space? Why or why not? How do you think your life be different if there were more parks in your area? Fewer?
According to this article, “Olmsted understood the promise of the park as a social force that would become an amenity in city life over the decades. In his view, parks were imbued with an exquisite kind of healing power. They were beautiful, born of nature, reimagined by man. He idealized them as literal common grounds forging communities, unstratified by race or class or faith.” Do the parks you visit play this role? Do they offer “healing power”? Are they places where barriers of race, class and faith are broken down? Why or why not?
