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Pocket park, the Glossary

A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public.^[1]

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Brownfield is previously-developed land that has been abandoned or underutilized, and which may carry pollution, or a risk of pollution, from industrial use. Pocket park and Brownfield land are urban studies and planning terminology.

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Cobblestone

Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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A community garden is a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively.

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Condesa pocket park

The Condesa pocket park, (Spanish: Parque de bolsillo de la Condesa), is a pocket park in the Condesa neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City. Pocket park and Condesa pocket park are pocket parks.

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Countryside Commission

The Countryside Commission (formally the Countryside Commission for England and Wales, then the Countryside Commission for England) was a statutory body in England and Wales, and later in England only.

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Doorstep Greens

Doorstep Greens are locally owned and run public spaces across England.

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Environmental gentrification

Environmental, ecological or green gentrification is a process in which cleaning up pollution or providing green amenities increases local property values and attracts wealthier residents to a previously polluted or disenfranchised neighbourhood. Pocket park and Environmental gentrification are urban planning.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville (locally) is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.

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Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez

Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez is a pocket park in Colonia Roma, Mexico City. Pocket park and Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez are pocket parks.

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John Lindsay

John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer.

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Karl Linn

Karl Linn (March 11, 1923 – February 3, 2005) was an American landscape architect, psychologist, educator, and community activist, best known for inspiring and guiding the creation of "neighborhood commons" on vacant lots in East Coast inner cities during the 1960s through 1980s.

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Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effects.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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La Moneda Palace

Palacio de La Moneda (Palace of the Mint), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the president of the Republic of Chile.

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Land lot

In real estate, a Land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). Pocket park and land lot are urban studies and planning terminology.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Marburg

Marburg is a university town in the German federal state (Bundesland) of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (Landkreis).

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Microclimate

A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially.

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Millennium Green

Millennium Greens are areas of green space for the benefit of local communities in England.

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Neighborhood commons

A neighborhood commons is a shared community space where neighborhood residents can come together to celebrate life, and young and old can be in each other’s presence but not in each other’s way.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Overdevelopment

In international economics, overdevelopment refers to a way of seeing global inequality and pollution that focuses on the negative consequences of excessive consumption. Pocket park and overdevelopment are urban studies and planning terminology.

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Paley Park

Paley Park is a pocket park located at 3 East 53rd Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the former site of the Stork Club. Pocket park and Paley Park are pocket parks.

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Park

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Pocket park and park are parks.

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Parklet

A parklet is a sidewalk extension that provides more space and amenities for people using the street. Pocket park and parklet are parks, urban planning and urban public parks.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Place identity

Place identity or place-based identity refers to a cluster of ideas about '''place''' and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, spatial design, environmental psychology, ecocriticism and urban sociology/ecological sociology. Pocket park and place identity are urban studies and planning terminology.

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Playground

A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. Pocket park and playground are parks.

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Polaris Founder's Park

Polaris Founder's Park is a pocket park in the Polaris area of Columbus (Delaware County), Ohio, United States. Pocket park and Polaris Founder's Park are pocket parks.

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Privately owned public space

Privately owned public space (POPS), or alternatively, privately owned public open spaces (POPOS), are terms used to describe a type of public space that, although privately owned, is legally required to be open to the public under a city's zoning ordinance or other land-use law. Pocket park and privately owned public space are urban planning.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.

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Public participation (decision making)

Citizen participation or public participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions—and ideally exert influence—regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions.

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Stormwater

Stormwater, also written storm water, is water that originates from precipitation (storm), including heavy rain and meltwater from hail and snow.

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Suminoe-ku, Osaka

is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan, stretching along the south-west border of the city.

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Texarkana, Arkansas

Texarkana is a city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Miller County, on the southwest border of the state.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. Pocket park and urban decay are urban planning.

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Urban green space

In land-use planning, urban green space is open-space areas reserved for parks and other "green spaces", including plant life, water features - also referred to as blue spaces - and other kinds of natural environment. Pocket park and urban green space are urban planning, urban public parks and urban studies and planning terminology.

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Urban heat island

Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.

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Urban park

An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other incorporated places that offers green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors. Pocket park and urban park are urban public parks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_park

Also known as Mini-park, Minipark, Parket, Parkette, Pocket parks, Vest-pocket park, Vestpocket park.

, Washington, D.C., Whitney North Seymour Jr., World War II.

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