Thanks Ilanna for all that great research! I was thinking we could personalize the presentation by discussing a park in our own backyard – namely, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Here’s an article written last year concerning new proposed developments:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/nyregion/in-queens-an-oasis-neglected-by-the-city.html?_r=0
I’m trying to look for the formal proposal, but I think it could be really interesting.
