at least now we’re getting some benefit for all the constant surveillance. as i’ve argued before, it makes fences redundant.

Using design and landscaping strategies—and by subtracting as much as they’re adding—park designers mean to edit and revise a number of parks to better meet their neighborhoods. The program also targets a special site category called “park-adjacent spaces.” These are those vexing parcels that seem to have been forgotten or neglected or excluded by park planners. “Very often we have these dead spaces that are just concrete, sitting there unprogrammed, next to parks. We’re now incorporating these into the parks themselves. We believe ‘park’ is not land for the park but the sidewalk next to the park as well.”