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Bloomberg: Why Dense Cities Need Big Parks to Thrive – Bloomberg Column By Megan McArdle photo: People jog in a park across from Malaysia’s landmark Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan) – Not far from my house, there is a reservoir and an elderly sand-filtration water-treatment plant that is no longer in service. As with so many things in the District of Columbia, its future use is the subject of heated debate. As I understand the history of the place, the city could have gotten the site for free from the federal government to use as a park, but instead bought it so that it could be developed for residential housing. As that development moves forward, a bitter dispute has grown ...
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:31:19 +0000

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