“Urban Parks, History and Social Context”

In this article a short history of parks is given to us, as well as different types of parks.  A few of the first parks were places used for grazing cattle and training militias. parks are designed and build according to there location there are different kinds of parks: landscape parks, recreation parks, beach parks and historical parks.Central Park in New York and Prospect Park in Brooklyn are considered landscape parks they where build to help people interact with nature these parks emulated the parks of the classic royal parks around Europe. Ive been to central park and i realized that they have and Egyptian  monument in the park. Ive ever been to Prospect Park; however after reading about it i would love to visit.