Golden Gate park

Bridge at Golden Gate park

Japanese Tea House

Our group has decided to look into parks and green space in the urban environment. we will look at High Park and way finding system. I started looking at other big parks around the world in order to compare high park with them. Golden Gate located in San Fransisco , California is a large urban park and is 20% larger than Central Park in New York. it has over one million trees, nine lakes, several pools and a lily pond within its borders. Young Museum Of Art and conservatory of flowers are also located at Golden Gate. there is also a Japanese tea house in this park. This is the oldest public Japanese garden in United States and a tea house features Japanese and Chinese plants.

proposal for Case Study

For our final proposal we decided to focus more on High Park. our main question is : How effective is high park's way finding system? to help us answer this broad question we came up with smaller questions such as: what kinds of methods are people using to navigate through the park? Is the park accessible for those with mobile disabilities? we will also look at how the park makes aware certain safely concerns such as poison ivy or dangerous conditions to the park's visitors without prior knowledge to these possible conditions.
For better understanding this case i will personally visit High Park and will come up with the questionnaire for this case study.

CASE STUDY

GROUP DISCUSSION

We decided to focus more into parks and green space. we gonna point at what goes into claiming such places and why we have them and if we will continue to have more.

Main Questions:
What roles do parks and green spaces have in the urban environment.
Should companies be required to include a certain amount of green space on their properties?
Should residents be required to include/retain a certain amount of green space on their properties?
who decides what park is or isn't?
what is the purpose of parks and green spaces