Kings Park - Perth’s Greatest Park…probably.
The Infrastructurist, a lovely blog sub-headed as “America under Construction” has been added to the sidebar. Some really beautiful posts on this one, all relating to (you guessed it) infrastructure.
One with particularly nice imagery is The World’s Greatest Large Urban Parks. Non-Euroamericans be warned…
We should note that all the parks on our list are located in Europe and North America. That wasn’t by insensitive design–the ones we chose just seemed to us the best candidates. If we missed any giant, amazing, centrally-located city parks in Asia or South America or Africa or some little island somewhere, please feel free to give us a beatdown in the comments section.
For those interested in Perth, a little addition lies below…
KINGS PARK - 1003 ACRES (or 401.2 hectares)
Besides tourist facilities Kings Park contains the State War Memorial, the Royal Kings Park Tennis club and a reservoir. The streets are tree lined with individual plaques dedicated by family members to Western Australian Service men and women who died in World War I and World War II.
Officially opened on 10 August 1895, the park was originally called Perth Park and was renamed in 1901 to King’s Park - the apostrophe was later dropped. This was to mark the ascension to the British throne of King Edward VII and the visit to Perth of George, the Duke of Cornwall and Princess Mary. One of the major roads through the park, May Drive is named in the Princess’s honour.
Sounds thrilling, especially the reservoir. Visitors will find it a slight inconvenience getting there without a car, and those that have a car will probably find it a bit difficult to park on weekends, especially if the weather is good. The eastern edge overlooking the city is nothing short of spectacular but be warned…your view will probably be obstructed by a war memorial or five. The best thing they could do to Kings Park is leave it exactly the way it is and not add anything more to it.
