#historic-parks

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Renovation
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Sporting Vichy / Comte & Vollenweider

The Sporting renovation project revitalizes Vichy's historic parks and lake banks, completing a multi-phase waterfront reclamation initiative that began in 2014.
fromThe Mercury News
5 months ago

Shutdown closes Bay Area home of the 'father of the national parks'

That eminent figure is Muir, the Scottish-born naturalist who founded the Sierra Club and hosted President Theodore Roosevelt on a camping trip in Yosemite in 1903. Muir is called the "father of the national parks," in part because the writing he did in his Martinez study persuaded Americans to see their wilderness areas as treasures to preserve, not as resources to be exploited.
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