To the east, you can see the inclines that make up Park Slope, a neighborhood that looks like auditorium seating from the F or G train; to the west, the shores of Gowanus Bay.
Which explains why tonight our entire studio audience is made up of park rangers and astronauts".
It took about 20 years to acquire the roughly 80 square miles of land that make up the park.
Few regions in the United States offer a more striking example of the variation between high and low desert as the nearly 800,000 acres that make up the park.
Now the curvaceous teak benches and ornamental grasses that make up the park's northern landscaping stop abruptly at that chain-link fence.
Jacquie Thomas, head of one of the "mini-schools" that make up Stanley Park, says her own experience has convinced her it worked.
While it's no secret that the park caters to over 13 million visitors a year, you'll be able to drum up your own sort of peace and quiet standing among the waterfalls, gardens, lakes and trails that make up the park.
But in actuality, less than 25% of Hong Kong's land is developed and 40% of the total space is made up of parks and nature reserves.
Brassed Off The Civic's gallery is split in two to host the 60 wind instruments that make up Cornelia Parker's early sculpture Perpetual Canon, opposite The History of the World, Jeremy Deller's graphic map of Acid House and... brass bands.
Made up of Marden Park and Great Church Wood, this is Surrey's largest Woodland Trust property.
Millennium Point in Birmingham has such a wilderness, for example, while the Space Centre stands in a queasy, unlovely territory, made up of car park, industrial relics and some new but very un-futuristic brick houses.
