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709 America’s Favorite City Parks; Europe’s Great Trails; Egypt 2023

Travel with Rick Steves

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Frederick Olmsted: A Landscape Architect's Legacy

Cotton: Olmsted created sacred places where we can commune with nature. Cotton: He considered a public park a public health institution, but he not only recognized the mental health benefits of immersing oneself in this kind of natural environment when you're oppressed on all sides in a busy frenetic urban city. The value of his parks is greater than he could even hope.

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