Parks Abbreviations

Park is a demarcated terrain with natural or artificial vegetation, which one tries to maintain. In towns, villages and around castles or country houses, there is usually a planned vegetation of trees, parks and lawns, which also contain paths and ponds.

1. enclosed area with vegetation and/or fauna, whether natural or otherwise, which are maintained to the best of our ability: national area near or around a castle or country house, usually embellished by ponds and artificial construction; terrain near or in a city or village, which has been set up as a public walking place by planting trees and shrubs;

2. collection of vehicles or machines: fleet, machinery.

Parks are divided into nature parks and recreation parks. The nature parks are mainly walking parks, the recreation parks mainly play parks. In planning, a distinction is made according to the size and accessibility of the park (neighborhood park, city park). In addition to the municipal parks, there are also heemparks (wild-plant gardens), urban district parks, situated in the vicinity of urban concentrations (eg the 2500 ha Spaarnwoude park area between Amsterdam and Haarlem), national parks (eg the Hoge Veluwe National Park, the Hoge Veluwe Fens in the province of Liège) and landscape parks. The latter are relatively new and consist of areas of natural beauty, agriculture and buildings that are protected in their entirety (landscape architecture).

Such parks are there to beautify the urban environment, for walking, sitting, etc. National parks are not laid out as parks, but have natural vegetation and the accompanying wild fauna. The purpose of a national park is to preserve the natural state, possibly combined with recreation . In contrast to the intensively maintained city parks, the human influence here is as small as possible. There are no national parks in Belgium. National landscape parks, which in the Netherlands are nowadays called national landscapes, and which are also present in Luxembourg, the FRG and Great Britain, among others, have been established to protect the entire landscape .to keep. This also includes residential areas, agricultural land in full production and nature reserves.

Park – a large expanse with woods, meadows, water features , etc. The so-called national parks, for which the United States of America has set the example with Yellowstone Park, the Yosemite Valley, and numerous others , aims to protect and conserve remarkable soil formations (mountains, geysers, etc.) and species and societies of plants and animals. In Switzerland ‘s national park , efforts are made to conserve the most remarkable plants and animals of the Swiss high mountains. While the parks used to be more exclusively privately owned ,from 1870, public parks increasingly come to the fore .

The example set by Paris with the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont was widely followed not only in Europe, but also in America and Japan. For example, Weenen can point to the ‘Prater'; London ao at the Hyde Park; Brussels on the Bois de la Cambre and Laeken Park; The Hague on the Bosch and Scheveningsche boschjes; Arnhem on the Sonsbeek estate. Incidentally, in the Netherlands, especially in the last half of the 19th century, the ramparts of the fortified places were transformed into so-called parks. In Berlin the forests of the Grunewald are now destined for city parks. In the United States, especially the cities of New York, Washington, Columbia, Boston, and Chicago have spent millions on establishing entire park systems. The cemeteries, the botanical gardens and the zoological gardens can be regarded as special forms of public parks. (SeeGARDEN ART and URBAN EXPANSION).

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