Aerial tour: America’s best park system
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- An aerial tour of Chicago the "City in a Garden," whose park system is considered the most important in the country.
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0:00 Intro
0:12 Millennium Park
1:14 Boulevards
1:37 30 miles of waterfront parks
1:55 Italian touring cyclist
2:44 Obama Presidential Library location
3:39 View from 1,000 feet up
4:20 Meigs Field Battle
5:45 Park history
6:56 Jane Addams
7:20 Fieldhouses
7:41 Cook County Forest Preserves
8:32 Riverwalk
The most popular park in the city is Millennium Park, which opened in 2004. It features the seamless, liquid mercury-inspired Cloud Gate sculpture that locals affectionately call “The Bean,” the 11,000-capacity Pritzker Pavilion and Great Lawn, and a hybrid video-fountain sculpture. The brainchild of Chicago’s longest-serving mayor, Richard M. Daley, sits atop parking garages and a major commuter rail terminal-making it the world's largest rooftop garden.
Surrounding downtown is Chicago’s system of boulevards-the first comprehensive greenway in a major US city. Linking numerous parks, these wide, grass and treelined streets were designed for leisurely strolls, cycles, or drives, and they help explain Chicago’s motto: “City in a garden.” And then, of course, there’s the one feature that truly sets Chicago apart: nearly every inch of its 30-mile lakefront is a park.
Right nearby is the site of the nearly complete Obama Presidential Center, which is rising in the southside neighborhood of Hyde Park, right next to the Museum of Science and Industry-the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere and one of the only buildings remaining from the 1893 Fair. The Obamas’ presidential library, like their home for 8 years in DC, is adjacent to a long public lawn, the Midway Plaisance, which connects Jackson Park with Washington Park to the west, forming one of the largest continuous urban public spaces in the country.
In fact, Washington Park’s large open green was where the Olympic stadium would have been if the city had succeeded in its bid for the 2016 Summer Games.
The Midway also runs through the University of Chicago, one of the best colleges in the world.
But one of the most ideal vantage points for viewing Chicago’s public lands is from the top of 875 North Michigan Avenue, formerly known as the John Hancock Center. Nothing beats viewing the world in 360 degrees from 1,000 feet up, even if the air was thick with smoke from wildfires in Canada. Turns out, it took a bizarre showdown between Mayor Daley and the Federal Aviation Administration to remove the last major hurdle blocking uninterrupted access to Lake Michigan.
For years, the city had been trying to close a small airport called Meigs Field on Northerly Island, which - after 9/11 - it also viewed as a clear security threat. Yet these efforts were repeatedly blocked by the FAA. So in the middle of the night in 2003, Mayor Daley took matters into his own hands.
Daley’s 22 years in office easily make him the Chicagoan whose impact is most felt in the city today. This incident sums up his bold, action-oriented leadership style.
Chicago Parks District historian Julia Bachrach.
Virgil K. Brown and Jane Addams. Her famous settlement house started as an effort to help poor immigrants in her Chicago neighborhood but grew into one of the most powerful social reform movements in history.
Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Chicago’s fieldhouses. These park buildings are for the community to gather or exercise, no matter the weather.
Another amenity in the surrounding counties is the Forest Preserves, an unrivaled network of prairies, woods, and wetlands.
“People in the city don’t really know about the forest preserves. They’re kind of a wonderful green emerald ring around the city. The forest preserves are owned by the taxpayers and it's about 69,000 acres - 11% of our land - it’s a wonderful, wonderful asset.”
Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle
It’s now the largest urban preserve in the United States.
Chicago Riverwalk
I can't help wishing that big traffic-filled road didn't run right along the lakeshore. That lovely strip of land would be so much lovelier without car noise and exhaust fumes.
Chicago, a world class city with so much potential
This is one of the things I miss the most about Chicago I used to ride my bike or rollerblade down to museum park and back every day in the summer
This was a great series! As a current Chicago resident who has an undeniable love for this city, this was a great series to watch! While Chicago has had some rough patches, I truly believe that Frank Lloyd Wrights quote of "Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world" reigns true. Love my city
When u are done u should do joburg South Africa then go to cape town then Sydney then Brisbane u really can make. Cities lool like a Paradise
What a fantastic series. I'm glad I'm not too far away from this gem of a city. Can't wait to visit again. If only we'd get high-speed rail between KC, STL, and Chicago.
Just loving this love letter to a city that was my home for so long.
Learned so much from this series. Cheers from Norway.
Jubel!
Great end to the series. I am a Chicago transplant living in Pittsburgh so I am looking forward to the next video! I see many striking parallels between the two great cities
God I love this series so much! Thank you
Thanks for all your support, Tacos!
I was going to suggest Pittsburgh but thought it was a little too small for you! I'm so stoked to see that video.
Yes, I’m stoked you’re looking forward to it!
A fantastic presentation that makes one appreciate the thought, effort and care that went into developing the green spaces and public infrastructure spread out among this world-class city!
Oo another "City in a Garden" is Bengaluru in India. It would be so cool if you made a video about it, and it's IT boom.
Great job on this video bro, keep it up
Thanks, will do!
very cool to learn so much about a city, thanks for this series :)
Great series! Love that you mentioned the prairie preserves! However, a major point of criticism for me is that still too much of the lakefront area is destroyed by the highway that cuts off so many Chicagoans from their greatest asset.
Please do Lagos soon
Need 4k
Well, Meigs Field still exists in Flight Simulator :-)
Lol
Occupied 24/7 😂
Y'all see green for nice parks. I see green and more spaces for affordable housing or housing in general
I'm going to guess that once you have your place, then the nice green parks become priority over other citizens in the future looking for an affordable first home.
Many of Chicago’s neighborhoods have an abundance of low density housing like single family homes and two-flats. Those should be densified with missing middle housing so that everyone can enjoy the park spaces.
This is okay if you're not local. But there's so much more that we learned growing up. Literally learned about all this in the 80's. I would like a local like myself to tell these stories. It would feel more genuine and authentic. This is more like a Wikipedia read.
I don’t think that Chicago has the “best” park system in America. Many cities have great parks. I would imagine that cities with green belts are pretty great too. Seattle has the most beautiful parks that I’ve seen.
Daley should have been thrown in prison for illegally and recklessly destroying meigs field.
Damn. If only the crime wasn’t so bad.
Too much Faux news. Take a look at St.louis MO R) Memphis TN, New Orleans LA, Jackson MS,.... that's a lot of states that have way worse crime and are absolute **it holes, and in Conservative states.😂
Looks very safe from the drone perspective
its really nice during the day
It isn't. There are only like a few square miles on the south and west sides that are no-go areas, but otherwise it's a basically a non-issue. How many people do you hear about getting killed who don't live in those areas? Most of the deaths are gang members killing other gang members.
The crime is not bad. Chicago is a very safe city, with a handful of problems areas that are dangerous. Most tourists or even residents never go to that dangerous areas.