Better Park System

Group members: Zheyu Liu, Lu Hao, Jiacheng Zhou, Jihae Park

Idea generates from:

“…city blocks must be small with dense intersections that give pedestrians many opportunities to interact.”

“Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center — at the very least a main crossroad and pausing point, a climax…”

— The Death and Life of Great American, Jane Jacobs

Q: Is Central Park really a good park design if we take Jane’s words into consideration?

So, our basic logic is — good parks should be placed somewhere with dense crossroads, which bring more people and higher vitality. We will simulate the process of decomposing the Central Park into a bunch of small parks which will be randomly distributed in NYC. Then we will visualize the population change based on the density of the intersections around each park.