The park is one of the most important part of cities, it’s a place where cities can showcase their natural beauty and people can relax in the recreation, sports and cultural venues. This is a collection of the best urban parks, waterfronts and gardens all over the world.
Jardin d’Essai, Algiers, Algeria
Aterro do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mangal das Garças, Belém, Brazil
Japanese Gardens, Portland, USA
Central Park, New York, USA
Millenium Park, Chigago, USA
Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, USA
Buffalo Bayou Promenade, Houston, USA
Cheonggyecheon Stream, Seoul, Korea
Buchart, British Columbia, Canada
Tim Houlihan noticed that this is a private property. I will keep this image as a bonus inspiration for those who work with urban landscape.
Resources
Project for Public Spaces Blog
I know I’ve left out many great parks. So, please help me to enrich the post by commenting the best park in your opinion or nominating other.
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http://www.gardenvisit.com
someone has done the work for you France has some very beautiful gardens/parks but all is listed in the web site Enjoy VBK
Welcome on Zeemp Blog @VBK!
Thanks a lot for your suggestion, France has got amazing parks!
Absolutely stunning and awesome photographs. I wish I can visit these places. Check out these photos of where I live, Long Beach, CA.
http://www.jadgraphics.net/blog/stunning-pictures-long-beach-ca/
@designinformer, Thanks for your comment .
the waterfront of your city is fabulous, that sunset picture is awesome too.
What people can do inside that dome?
This is beautiful! Same as Jad, wish I can visit them.
@creativemagz Thanks for your presence, I wish I visit them too.
Sure someone can find a better aerial, but don’t think we can overlook the Capitol Mall…
[img]http://z.about.com/d/dc/1/0/V/H/mall.jpg[/img]
Thanks for the suggestion, JH.
Millenium Park, Chicago is the best designed and used urban park. No doubt.
Eva
Hi Eva, thanks for commenting.
Chicago Millenium is an awesome park. I love the Pedestrian Bridge.
Paulo:
Living with a # of interesting urban parks in Victoria, BC, and with all due respect to Madam Buchart who took her family’s worked out quarry and made it into a “wonderful grand” year round tourist attraction, I would not even have considered it as top of mind. It’s a magnificent garden. It’s not urban, it’s a suburban tourist attraction of the finest kind. However, it’s only accessible to those willing to pay an entrance fee year round.
Tim, I agree with you that is a private property, but it so awesome!
I will update the post with your correction. Thanks!
Buffalo Bayou Promenade? Perhaps it is a very wonderful space not done justice by the photograph. From the photo, it appears “Freeway Promenade” would be a more appropriate name.
Since there are already some places mentioned that are not totally open to free public access, I would add the gardens of the Alcazar in Seville, Spain, to the list. Here’s a link to some photos (not just of the gardens, but also elsewhere in Seville):
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g187443-d191139-Alcazar-Seville_Andalusia.html
Hi Archmichael,
I wanted to show the freeway to make it clear to people that unused spaces can become a great attraction.
Thanks for the suggestion about Alcazar in Seville, I will definitely talk about this park in my next posts, it is awesome!
Thanks a lot and welcome to my blog, please comment in another posts if you like it.
Very interesting post. Couldn’t of written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old chum. He always kept speaking about this. I will forward this post to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jeremy!
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