Parks are Not for Cars!
Montreal's Mont-Royal Is Scrolling Back to 1876—and That's a Good Thing.
The Parc du Mont-Royal is the Central Park of my hometown. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted1, the creator of New York City’s best-loved green space, and it plays the same iconic role in the life of Montreal. Actually, Mont-Royal has several things going for it that Central Park doesn’t: paths through forest dense enough to fool you into thinking …
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