A patch of parkland in spring is hotter real estate than an apartment in the Dakota.
But there is, at least, a little patch of parkland in London where some lucky architects can go to play.
The vines can be found in nearly every patch of parkland in the city, Mr. Matsil said, and they have killed thousands of trees, as well as shrubs, flowers and other plants.
In patches of parkland near a lake, the empty husks of the nymph-stage bugs are everywhere, left behind wherever a creature squeezed out of a gap in its shell like an extraterrestrial in a Ridley Scott movie.
The idea for a Laguna Greenbelt goes back roughly 30 years, and over the last decade or so, scattered patches of parkland have grown in size and number until, collectively, they have become a single swath of protected land.
A nice city, but its neat patches of parkland and grey high-rises are no match for breaching whales, phosphorescent fish and crouching tigers, or the sight if Pi, howling like Job into stormy skies.
As for those revelatory photographers, the first, August Kotzsch, was a 19th-century German landscapist written out of most standard history books because his views of overgrown cellars, shrubs, trees and rocky patches of parkland — places out of time and hard to pinpoint — didn't serve the classic master narrative of art history.
What he's struggled with is winning over the civic groups that have some control over these patches of parkland.
The question of whether to dedicate a patch of public parkland to a private organization cropped up on Tuesday when the Little League asked Community Board 7 to bless its plan to spend $600,000 $75,0000 of its own money, the rest public funds) to renovate the land and protect one field with a locked fence.
Even though you are still in town, you will spot plenty of native species (blue herons, loggerhead turtles, alligators) in this hilly, watery patch of urban parkland.
I just knew it was a relief to spend time with book-children who, like me, had more experience of a world bounded by building sites, patches of grubby parkland and knackered working parents than they did of one strewn with rolling moors, private islands and spies.
