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> Death and cemeteries are different than they used to be. Cemeteries used to be places to go on picnics, for kids to play, and so on. Yeah, parks in cities ar
by chimeracoder 11y ago
> Death and cemeteries are different than they used to be. Cemeteries used to be places to go on picnics, for kids to play, and so on.
Yeah, parks in cities are a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously, cemeteries filled a lot of the role that parks did.
Central Park was not the first, but it was one of the first (and most prominent at the time) example of a park that was explicitly not a cemetery.
- peterwwillis 11y agoIt seems that this has to do specifically with public parks. Lavish private parks and gardens have existed for a few millennia as a respite from homes and cities and as a way to contemplate nature. (Seeing as it took so much money to build and maintain them, they typically were kept for their owners' pleasure alone)