Urban encroachment, Mr. Pritchard said, turns "conservation areas into city parks, and historical sites into playgrounds".
Mumbai has too few of them, so children and adults convert streets, alleys and other places into playgrounds", he explains.
The scoundrels have transformed their lives into playgrounds where they do nothing but lark around in pursuit of money.
At last, someone has stood up to the swilling tide of pseudo-democracy that threatens to turn museums into playgrounds and shopping malls.
Plastic buckets, neon, tangled wires and a V8 engine constitute some of the stuff that Rhoades has artfully assembled into playgrounds of waste.
Early this year, market researchers headed into playgrounds, skate parks and video arcades throughout Chicago looking for what they called alpha pups.
This has involved not only the proliferation of suburban gated communities, but also the transformation of city centers in places like Paris and New York into playgrounds for tourists and the rich.
German artist Höller, who originally trained as an agricultural scientist, is renowned for turning art galleries into playgrounds full of adults and children, making them shriek with glee and occasionally terror.
Critics say that San Francisco's communities of alternative culture, ethnic or otherwise – the soil of its creative mojo and legendary social movements – are being turned into playgrounds for rich people.
A20 A Battle Over Prairie Dogs As new houses and stores have taken over land that was once their homes, prairie dogs have begun burrowing into playgrounds and athletic fields in Boulder, Colo.
This is why Google, Microsoft and many other firms have transformed their offices into playgrounds, and why many employers have had to restrict access to social media sites at work.
