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Waterfall Garden Park, Pioneer Square, Seattle, Washington. A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary considerably, the common defining characteristic of a pocket park is its small size. [1]
A miniature park is a display of miniature buildings and models, usually as a recreational and tourist attraction open to the public. A miniature park may contain a model of a single city or town, often called a miniature city or model village , or it can contain a number of different sets of models.
Barrioization or barriorization is a theory developed by Chicano scholars Albert Camarillo and Richard Griswold del Castillo to explain the historical formation and maintenance of ethnically segregated neighborhoods of Chicanos and Latinos in the United States.
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban redevelopment. [1]
A Miyawaki forest has been planted over a landfill in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of Danehy Park. [6] A 1,000 sq ft (93 m 2) forest has been planted as part of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. [6] Several Miyawaki forests have been planted in Berkeley, California. [1]
Articles about geography related subjects of the U.S. state of California. For human settlements, see Category:Populated places in California . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Geography of California .
[88] [89] The demonstrators set up an encampment that, at one point, consisted of "a miniature city" of as many as 150 tents. [90] [91] At one point, a second encampment was established at Snow Park on Lake Merritt. [92] Oakland Police raided and dismantled the two protest sites at Frank Ogawa Plaza and Snow Park early in the morning on October 25.
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley , after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k ...