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Private companies are stealing public parks

“For years now, entertainment mega-corporations have targeted cash-strapped councils as amenable, affordable hosts for their events. From Clapham Common to Glasgow Green, city-dwellers across the UK have become accustomed to basslines vibrating their windows, five-metre fences encircling their playgrounds, and security guards policing what are effectively their gardens.

“Yet as entertainment companies try to recuperate massive pandemic losses with aggressive multi-year deals, while the climate crisis renders urban summers increasingly unbearable, the privatisation of public parkland is becoming harder to swallow.

“In April, dozens of Haringey residents descended on FoFP’s biggest-ever meeting to vent their frustrations, while a recent petition demanding private companies keep their hands off Finsbury Park was signed by thousands ... For the most part, the work of groups like FoFP and FCC is polite engagement with the council to ensure the park is properly maintained. Yet as councils’ approach to major events has become more aggressive, so have the friends groups’.

“In 2016, FoFP took Haringey to court over its outdoor events policy. The group lost the case – though it did win an agreement from Haringey that the money made from the park would be spent on it. Haringey claims to have done this, though to FoFP, the numbers don’t quite add up: while in information obtained by Novara Media via an FoI request, the council claims it spent £871,626 on staffing Finsbury Park in 2020-21, many have questioned where the money is going: the park has had no park ranger since late October, no on-site manager since May. ‘If you’ve got this money […] you sure as hell didn’t spend it here,’ says Simon, pointing to the chipped paint of the bench on which she’s sitting.”

Photograph - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Yarra River in Flood, Abbotsford, Victoria, 1934

Black and white silver gelatin sepia toned photograph of factories in Abbotsford during the Yarra River flood in 1934.

This image seems to have been taken from a high vantage point at the Kodak Australasia factory, looking west along the Yarra River with Abbotsford and Fitzroy in the background. The tall spire in the mid-right background is most likely the Collingwood Town Hall, while the trees and parkland of Studley Park are at right on the other side of the river. In the left foreground is some partially submerged land, factory buildings and a tall chimney. At left of the second building a man and a child can be seen standing in the flood water. A brewery sign is visible in the left background behind the industrial buildings. In the distance, inner city Melbourne can be seen, dotted with numerous tall industrial chimneys. A partially submerged fence line parallel to the Yarra River is in the mid-ground. This image does not appear to feature any of the Kodak factory buildings in it. The Yarra River was prone to flooding, and despite major works designed to manage water flow in the 1920s, the river still experienced a major flood in November 1934. Such floods caused damage to the local factories and potentially washed away into the river some of the materials and chemicals that were used in the manufacturing processes within the factories.(Museums Victoria)

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Large lawn area, ideal for picnic

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There are many things I could write about the First Extraordinary Session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly, called by Gov. Bill Lee ostensibly to address public safety.

I could write about the House’s restrictive rules package, or that Lee was missing in action, or the dysfunction between the Republican-dominated House and Senate.

But the issue on my mind is larger than all of these — larger than the Constitution, larger than the zero sum game of partisan politics.

As I reviewed the hundreds of photos taken by photojournalist John Partipilo over the eight-day session, I got hung up on one that depicted Rep. Antonio Parkinson, D-Memphis, and Rep. Todd Warner, R-Culleoka, standing to shout at each other and point fingers over a controversial bill that would permit active-duty military members, veterans and off-duty law enforcement officers to roam school grounds with firearms.

How in hell did we end up at a point in Tennessee, and America, at which we bicker about the use of ballistic glass on school doors and letting armed men and women roam the grounds of elementary schools?

We continue to focus on items that are unimportant. To quibble over measures like these is to focus on the speck in our neighbor’s eye while ignoring the plank in our own.

That we have no state or federal leaders willing to stand up and address a moral cancer has brought us to the point at which they would rather imprison children in schools with ballistic doors and fences and randos with guns on campus than dig into America’s epidemic of mass murder is amoral.

We have a rot in our collective national soul, and it extends to Tennessee.

For in what other country do residents routinely murder each other in groups, on a weekly, if not daily basis?

In no other country does this carnage occur. Our ”shining city upon a hill” is a blood-drenched charnel house, where bodies have piled up, corpse upon corpse, from Columbine to Newtown to Aurora to Parkland to Buffalo to Nashville to Jacksonville and to cities and towns across the country.

And what in God’s name are our elected officials doing to get to the root of this?

They preach the gospel of the Second Amendment. They take marching orders from the National Rifle Association and in Tennessee, the Tennessee Firearms Association — a small group with an outsized influence. They push packages advertising high-powered weaponry and shields for school resource officers, and use military terminology such as “hardening” schools.

Tallowwood Park in  Highland Reserve in Upper Coomera has a fully fenced playground surrounded by a large green open parkland with winding walking paths and a large lake with Ducks and Turtles.

Find out all about it: www.funthingsfortoddlers.com/parks/tallowwood-park-upper-coomera/

I’m really sick of all the pro-trespassing posts I’ve been seeing on my dash lately, especially as they all seem to be very Eurocentric, and critical of American attitudes towards property, making fun of “trespassers will be shot” signs and such.

As someone who lives in a rural area, I think there are some fundamental misunderstandings about it.

1. Land isn’t owned in vast swathes by a small group of the upper class. It’s mostly owned by poor farmers just trying to make a living.

2. America is big. Really big. There are no 2,000 year old walking paths through people’s property, because these properties are out in the middle of nowhere. There is literally no reason to be on someone else’s property unless you are committing a crime.

3. White American’s (especially rural ones) tend to have a very strong belief in personal property, because *that’s why they came here*. The promise of owning your own land and not being beholden to anyone was the major impetus behind leaving their families, culture, and everything they knew, so of course they’re going to pass that down to their children and grandchildren.

4. Oftentimes these signs are to protect people from unknown dangers. Electrical fences, long horn cattle who want to gore you, bears, wolves, cave systems, whatever.

5. Once again THERE IS NO REASON TO BE ON SOMEONE’S PROPERTY UNLESS YOU’RE COMMITTING A CRIME. We have endless amounts of federal, state, and county parkland if you want to visit nature, almost all of it is free, easy to get to, and has conveniences like bathrooms and maps and rescue teams if you get lost.

6. Speaking of crimes, especially anywhere near the southern border (and by near, I mean within a ten hour drive), you do have the very real problems of dangerous people traveling through your property to traffic drugs, weapons, and people. (I could go on about how immigration limits and closed borders make the problem worse, so please don’t think I’m anti-immigrant when I am very much not. But political ideologies doesn’t change the fact that scary things happen in my small town because we’re only one gas-tank away from the border. Things I used to read about when I lived in the city and brushed off as racist fear mongering).

I know it isn’t like this everywhere. There are probably tons of places in America where this doesn’t apply. But the jokes are always geared towards the southern, rural, poor landowners who are willing and able to shoot anyone they find on their property, without any sort of acknowledgment that there is a reason this culture exists, that has nothing to do with gun happy racists who hate hikers.

A plan to cover a river's front with docks, parks and tracks in 1911 would not be realized until the 1930s

We present a bird's eye view showing the salient features of this proposed West Side improvement. At an average distance of 200 feet out from the present shore line, a riprap wall will be built, and the intervening space filled in with suitable material.

Adjacent to the present tracks of the New York Central Railroad, space will be reserved for two additional tracks, to be built by the company when the increased traffic of the future calls for them.

Then, in, their turn, will be constructed three municipal freight tracks, a broad loading and unloading platform, a driveway for vehicles, a wide platform for receiving river and ocean freight, and, finally, along the dock front will be a pair of tracks for the use of freight unloaded from or to be delivered to steamships. The whole of this area, up to the edge of the steamship loading and unloading platform, will be covered by a massive steel and concrete roof, and upon this will be laid a covering of earth of sufficient depth to meet the requirements of a park, and support a growth of turf, shrubbery and trees.

The park, as thus formed, will be laid out with walks and windings paths to conform to the pathways existing on the slopes of Riverside Park. Large openings will be provided at intervals for lighting and ventilating the covered-in tracks and roadways, and in that portion of the new park which is opposite Columbia College a stadium will be laid out for the use of the university.

It is the expectation of the commissioners that practically all of the rock required for the riprap, and one-sixth of the earth necessary for filling purposes, will be obtained from the excavations of the proposed Lexington Avenue-Broadway subway.

The remaining material, about one million cubic yards, can be obtained from selected materials, such as clean ashes, of the street cleaning department, and from the various excavations for buildings in the district bordering on the proposed work.

Scientific American article excerpt and colorized illustration, May 6, 1911

It wasn't until the 30's that the West Side improvement really took off, driven by "the man who got things done," Robert Moses.

Moses's biographer Robert Caro described Moses surveying the area prior to his project, and seeing a wasteland six miles long, stretching from where he stood all the way north to 181st street. "The 'park' was nothing but a vast low-lying mass of dirt and mud. Unpainted, rusting, jagged wire fences along the tracks barred the city from its waterfront.

"The engines that pulled trains along the tracks burned coal or oil; from their smokestacks a dense black smog rose toward the apartment houses, coating windowsills with grit. A stench seemed to hang over Riverside Drive endlessly after each passage of a train carrying south to the slaughterhouses in downtown Manhattan carload after carload of cattle and pigs."

Once, Frances Perkins heard Moses exclaim, "Isn't this a temptation to you? Couldn't this waterfront be the most beautiful thing in the world?"

Moses's updated "West Side Improvement" plan, designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, Michael Rapuano, and Clinton Loyd, retained the railroad tunnel under the park, but moved the parkway to the shorefront instead; this would become the Henry Hudson Parkway.

As part of the project, the parkway was to connect with the West Side Elevated Highway at the south end of Riverside Park, while the railroad would connect to the High Line viaduct even further south. The parkway was to be built on newly filled land along the shore, requiring the extension of the shoreline by 50 feet and the dumping of 1 million cubic yards of fill. This resulted in a more contiguous park area, since the roof of the tunnel would then be occupied by parkland.

Moses's plan was also more actively focused toward recreation: his plan called for playgrounds, tennis courts, wading and swimming pools, an amphitheater, and docks at 79th and 96th Streets. The roof of the railroad tunnel would host several of these recreation fields, while other parts of the tunnel's roof would be used by a promenade. The cost as submitted to the New York City Board of Estimate was $11 million (equivalent to $215 million in 2021), of which $6 million would go toward the railroad tunnel alone (equivalent to $117 million in 2021).

By mid-1934, Moses was ready to employ about 4,000 workers through the Works Progress Administration. Filling operations were underway by early 1935, requiring the dumping of 4,000 cubic yards of dirt per day.

The parkway in Riverside Park was approved in June 1935, and was completed in 1937. In addition, plans for a new boat basin at 149th Street were announced in 1939. The West Side Improvement project was completed by 1941. The project was twice as big as the Hoover Dam's construction. In total, the project plan added 132 acres to the park. Ultimately eight full playgrounds were built, as well as baseball fields and tennis, handball, and basketball courts. Having achieved its goal of rebuilding Riverside Park, the Women's League disbanded in 1937. Wikipedia article

Google earth aerial view of the Westside improvement in 2023

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Get orf moi laaand! Posh hotel declares parkland a no-go zone

Michelin-starred chef to use foraged ingredients in Birch Selsdon’s two restaurants, as fences go up to keep local residents from walking their pooches across the former golf course The new owners of the luxury hotel that used to be known as the Selsdon Park have declared the 200 acres of parkland that surrounds the building a no-go zone for local residents, ramblers and dog walkers. Birch…

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Garden Bed in Parklands

By having a distinct garden bed in the parklands area, there is an opportunity to populate the space with plants native to the area. This is key not only to the ecological restoration of a place, but also in the respecting and embracing of First Nations culture that thrived off of these native plants.

A staple of this garden bed will be the installation of cabbage tree palms. The leaves from this plant can be used to weave baskets and other practical items, an activity that can be lead by First Nations elders in the space.

These can range from $60 to $600 depending on the size, so if we were to install these along a 35m garden bed, with 5 metres between the trunks we can install 7. At the mid-point of the price range ($330), we can estimate approximately $2500 for this project.

Cabbage tree palm (Livistona australis) - True Green Nursery. (2023, January 18). True Green Nursery. https://truegreennursery.com.au/product/cabbage-tree-palm-livistona-australis/

Another native plant in this bed will be birds nest ferns as they are cheap and relatively hardy. If we budget for 20 of these plants at approximately $15 each that will total $300.

Asplenium australasicum - bird’s nest fern. (2023). Australian Plants Online. https://www.australianplantsonline.com.au/asplenium-australasicum-birds-nest-fern.html

Another plant to be used is a tulipwood tree that has colourful fruits and thrives in a subtropical climate. The cost of each tree at a young stage is $20 so to budget for 8 trees would bring the total to $160.

The Diggers Club. (2021). Tulipwood. The Diggers Club. https://www.diggers.com.au/products/tulipwood

These mixed with other native plants will help to bring native wildlife to the area and will harken back to the rainforest roots of the region. Brisbane City Council have a program where they provide native plants for residential properties so it could be possible to work with them to resource plants at a reduced rate. Due to the amount of native plants required to populate the garden bed however, $1000 will be dedicated to the other plants that aren't explicitly outlined here.

Native plant species. (2014). Qld.gov.au. https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/green-home-and-community/sustainable-gardening/free-native-plants-program/participating-nurseries/native-plant-species-for-residents

‌The planned dimensions for the garden bed is 35x5m, so the perimeter required to fence is 80m. Ideally, the edging around the garden bed would be made out of reclaimed timber but in the event that the required material isn't available, the required materials will come to $1400 for a basic solution.

SpecRite 2m Merbau Tapered Garden Border Roll. (2016). @Bunnings. https://www.bunnings.com.au/specrite-2m-merbau-tapered-garden-border-roll_p3321641

‌To top off the garden, a coloured mulch will be used. The required amount of mulch sits around 17.5 m3, but even when using a company with a 20m3 minimum order, the price of mulch is minimal, coming in at $670 to do the garden bed with excess.

Mulch Brisbane - Forest Mulch for Sale. (2021, April 20). North Brisbane Trees. https://www.northbrisbanetrees.com.au/services/mulch/

‌With all of this considered, the final cost of the installation of this garden bed is approximately $6030, not including labour.

For a rough estimate at labour costs, we will allocate a $50/hr wage, assume the project will take 4 days with 8 hours a day and will require a 5 man team, the wages will come to $8000. To account for variations in any of those aspects, an allocation of $10000 will be made to the cost of labour for the garden bed, bringing the final cost of the project $16030.

Cows in Allestree Park to be controlled by collars playing melodies#Cows #Allestree #Park #controlled #collars #playing #melodies

More Highland cattle are to be released into a city’s parkland and fitted with sound-emitting collars to restrict their roaming. Derby City Council wants to put more cows into Allestree Park as part of what it says will be the UK’s largest rewilding scheme. It aims to used new technology to keep them penned into areas with “virtual fences” triggering the collars. It said the move would improve…

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