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M.Bluestone, in American Quarterly (Winter 19871, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 701 West 40th St., Ste. 275, Baltimore, Md. 21211.
Most scholars have assumed that urban parks were established to satisfy city-dwellers eager to create pastoral oases in the middle of the bustling metropolis. For example, Lewis Murnford, in Sticks and Stones (1924), argued that such parks were designed as a "means of escape" from "the soiled, bedraggled works of man's creation."
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