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New York City is blessed with magnificent open spaces that accommodate many different types of traditional recreation: you can fly a kite, play ball, picnic, stroll. But the best way to determine what kinds of uses should go where, to design and plan our landscapes of play, might not always be from the top down. After all, the wide-ranging interests of New York’s diverse population don’t always quite fit into our parks’ permitted uses. As landscape architect Brian Davis previously explored here on UO, other forms of recreation — the building of birdhouses and habitats along the Gowanus Canal or the restoration of historic airplanes in Floyd Bennett Field — require different spaces that encourage a more hands-on, generative form of leisure.
