Where to hit the trail The Laguna Greenbelt is a loose designation for a patchwork of parks and open spaces around Laguna Beach, Calif., about 60 miles south of Los Angeles.
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the two-hundred-and-fifty-square-mile patchwork of parks, preserves, and private land where P-22 was born, is home to about ten adult cats, and an estimated twenty more live on the southern edge of the city, in the Santa Ana Mountains.
As in Oklahoma City, the downtown here is a bit gap-toothed -- it's largely a patchwork of parking lots interrupted by the occasional building -- but has some extraordinary Art Deco structures worth looking at, including the Kress Building (1932), the landmark Santa Fe Building (1929) and the late-Deco Greyhound bus terminal (built in 1949, it now also houses offices).
Park by park a patchwork of green spaces has been taking shape, the consequence of decades of grinding, grass-roots, community-driven efforts.
Attempts to deal with parking on verges and joyriding had left the area peppered with bollards and a patchwork of coloured parking bays and red zones on the roads which we didn't really understand.
By the end of the 19th century critics were murmuring that the nation's front lawn had deteriorated into a patchwork of unrelated parks, gloomy red-brick buildings and dilapidated train sheds.
In 1990, seven years before, the Guatemalan government had turned the northern part of the country, about a fifth of the nation's entire land mass an area the size of New Jersey, larger than Alaska's Denali into the Maya Biosphere Reserve, an American-style patchwork of national parks and so-called sustainable-forestry concessions, where people were allowed to live from the forest.
The Nevada Museum of Art looks like a spectacular chunk of black desert rock that mysteriously landed amid the patchwork of office blocks, parking lots and wedding chapels of downtown Reno.
The city is compensating the neighborhood for the loss of that old refuge, which was well shaded and heavily used, with a patchwork of new parkland, some of it more than a mile away and some of it on top of a parking garage.
Growth led to a patchwork of neighbourhood green spaces.
