This part of the city ranks low in per capita park acreage, and this closed riverfront parkland is sorely missed.
Over all, the department has picked up acres, on paper at least, and the new total, when completed this fall, should push park acreage over 30,000 for the first time.
Judge Nickerson grew the government in response to the county's growth; he preserved open space and more than doubled the park acreage; he implemented new social services, built a new hospital and upgraded the jail and the Department of Public Works.
That way, the Giuliani administration argued, no state approval was needed because the plant would be under the golf course, and there would be no net reduction in park acreage after the five-year construction period was over.
To address this gap, I conducted an analytical literature review focusing on three groups of parameters: park proximity, park acreage, and park quality.
Park space: Total park acreage per city was provided by the Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit that works to conserve land for public use.
Based on a sample of 49 empirical studies mostly focusing on cities in developed countries, my review shows fairly inconclusive findings for park proximity, but striking inequities for park acreage and park quality.
