If you Love Your Park Lands, like we do, you might occasionally hear criticism from people who have latched onto a Park Lands myth.
This month, we’re MYTH-BUSTING the claim that “new buildings will bring people into the Park Lands”
This is a very common suggestion. Even Government Ministers are prone to make this claim, and to ridicule those who suggest that the idea is a fallacy.
Image: Shutterstock
Of course, it’s true that a popular building is likely to attract a variety of visitors; perhaps tourists, shoppers, employees, and/or staff of any business established there.
But of course new buildings change the land on which they stand.
Where once the land was Open Green and Public, the land for the new building becomes something different: no longer part of a Park, it becomes instead a hotel, a school, an office, a restaurant; something other than a Park.
A locked building by definition, is not Open Green Public.
We love to see people using the Park Lands but getting more people into them is not a goal in itself. Otherwise we might as well have all Parks looking like this:
A crowded market: Yes it’s very popular, but is it a Park? Is it Open, Green, Public? Image: Shutterstock
See the other Park Lands Myth Busters https://www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/myth-busters
