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15-minute city
The 15-minute city, coined by Carlos Moreno in 2016, is an urban planning model placing daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride; championed by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and adapted in Melbourne, Portland, and other cities.
Achilleion Palace Garden
Achilleion Palace Garden, Corfu: the sculpture gardens of Empress Elisabeth's 1891 palace at Gastouri, with the Peristyle of the Muses, 19th-century Roman statues in the Canova-Thorvaldsen circle, replanted by Kaiser Wilhelm II after 1907.
Active Leisure Park 0.67
Парк актыўнага адпачынку «0,67» (Active Leisure Park 0.67, 067.by) is an outdoor recreation park 4 km from Minsk's MKAD on the Slutsk highway, offering paintball, laser tag, rope courses, quests, and event rentals.
Al-Andalus Garden
Al-Andalus Garden (Hadiqat al-Andalus) is a 1935 heritage garden on Gezira Island, Cairo, built by Mohamed Bey Zulfikar in Andalusian and Pharaonic styles; Egypt's first registered heritage garden, restored and reopened in 2024.
Al-Forat Park
متنزه الفرات (Al-Forat Park, Euphrates Park): name shared by several Iraqi recreation places, notably a park and adjoining casino in Samawah, Muthanna Governorate, a free family park in Najaf/Kufa, and parks in Dhi Qar and Anbar.
Al-Sabeen Park
Al-Sabeen Park (حديقة السبعين) is the largest public park in Sana'a, Yemen, at about 391,000 square meters, established by investor Abdulla Al-Maghshi in 1986 with Yemen's first amusement city, and a leading family recreation venue.
Al-Shihr Corniche Park
Al-Shihr Corniche Park (حديقة كورنيش الشحر) is a public waterfront park in Al-Shihr District, Hadhramaut, Yemen, part of a World Bank-funded, UNOPS-implemented three-phase corniche; phase one opened 27 December 2023 at US$560,000 over 150 by 50 meters.
Alboudozerah
Alboudozerah (البودزيرة) is a park and recreation area in Benghazi, Libya, about 7 km north of the city center in Al-Kuwaifiya, built around a natural lake.
Allerton Park
Allerton Park names two historic landscapes: a 205-ha grade II registered park around Allerton Castle near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, and Allerton Park & Retreat Center, Robert Allerton's 1,500-acre Illinois estate given to the University of Illinois in 1946.
Alwahda Park
Alwahda Park (حديقة الوحدة, Unity Park) is a 5.9-acre public park in Sana'a, Yemen, on Algiers Street in the Al-Wahda district, open daily 06:00 to midnight, distinct from same-named parks in Seiyun and Amman.
Ambedkar Memorial Park
Ambedkar Memorial Park, popularly known as Ambedkar Park, is a public park and memorial in Gomti Nagar, Lucknow, India, built to honor B. R. Ambedkar and other social reformers.
Amir Timur park
Amir Timur park, or Amir Temur Square (Amir Temur xiyoboni), is Tashkent's central square-park, founded 1870/1882, renamed 1993, with a 1994 bronze equestrian statue of Temur and a 2026 renovation for his 690th birthday.
Anderson Japanese Gardens
Anderson Japanese Gardens is a 12-acre public Japanese garden in Rockford, Illinois, begun in 1978 by John Anderson and designed by Hoichi Kurisu; a nonprofit rated among North America's finest Japanese gardens.
Aquarium Grotto Garden
Aquarium Grotto Garden (حديقة جبلاية الأسماك, Fish Garden, El Gabalaya) is a historic 1867 Khedive Ismail garden with artificial grotto caves and aquariums on Zamalek island, Cairo, opened to the public in 1902 and registered as Islamic and Coptic antiquities.
Auckland Domain
Pukekawa / Auckland Domain is Auckland's oldest park, set aside in 1841, containing the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Category 1 listed Domain Wintergardens, sports fields, and Māori and European heritage sites.
Austin J. Tobin Plaza
Austin J. Tobin Plaza, the World Trade Center's main public plaza in Lower Manhattan, named for the Port Authority executive director; original 1973 plaza with Koenig Sphere, now the 9/11 Memorial with twin reflecting pools.
Babur Eco Park
Babur Eco Park (Central Ecopark named after Zahiriddin Babur) is a Tashkent eco-park in Mirzo-Ulugbek district, opened 2017 on the old zoo site; eco-materials, lake with Island of Lovers, no amusement rides.
Badr Al-Duja Family Oasis
Badr Al-Duja Family Oasis (واحة بدر الدجى العائلية), a free 8-dunam family park numbered 29 in Karbala's Southern Green Belt, opened June 3, 2026 for Eid al-Ghadir, built by the Abbasid Holy Shrine with gardens, waterfalls, playgrounds, and a subsidized restaurant.
Baguio Botanical Garden
Baguio Botanical Garden (also Igorot Village, formerly Imelda Park) is a 5-hectare public garden on Leonard Wood Road, Baguio City, Philippines, at 1,540 m elevation, featuring Igorot huts, themed international gardens, and a WWII Japanese tunnel.
Balboa Park (San Diego)
Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre urban cultural park in San Diego, established 1868 as City Park, renamed 1910, shaped by the 1915-16 and 1935-36 expositions, home to 18 museums and the San Diego Zoo.
Basmat Park
Basmat Park (منتزه بسمات في الجديد) is a public park in Kafr Ra'i, Jenin Governorate, Palestine, documented in a 2008 photograph in the Palestine Remembered village archive.
Battersea Park
Battersea Park is an 83-hectare Grade II Victorian park on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, London, opened in 1854, with a lake, Subtropical Garden, Festival Gardens site, Peace Pagoda, and children's zoo.
Batumi Central Park
Batumi Central Park (ბათუმის ცენტრალური პარკი), formerly 6 May Park, is Batumi's first civil garden, created from 1881 around Lake Nurigeli, with dolphinarium, aquarium, and zoo.
Bear park
BearPark (BärenPark), Bern's free-access brown bear enclosure on the Aare riverbank, opened 22 October 2009 as successor to the historic Bärengraben; 6,000 m², part of Tierpark Bern, home to bears Finn, Björk, and Ursina, open 24/7 with about 1.5 million visitors yearly.
Behesht Garden
Behesht Garden (Bagh-e Behesht, Bagh-e Lark), a historic estate in northeast Tehran bought in 1933 by Hilda Bewicke, wife of General Hassan Danesh-Arefi; a planned dairy-farming community later hit by inheritance tax and confiscation disputes.
Beijing Zoo (北京动物园)
Beijing Zoo (北京动物园), founded 1906 as the Qing Agricultural Experiment Station's Wanshengyuan outside Xizhimen, is China's oldest public zoo; renamed 1955, it holds 80.05 hectares, about 400 species, 5,000+ animals, and a new 2026 Giant Panda House.
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a Victorian folly in Central Park, New York, atop Vista Rock at 79th Street, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, completed 1872, a U.S. Weather Bureau station from 1919, restored 1983 and 2019.
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a hillside landscape park in Kassel, Germany, begun in 1689 and known for its gravity-driven water displays beneath a giant Hercules statue.
Biidaasige Park
Biidaasige Park is a roughly 60-acre waterfront park on Ookwemin Minising, a new island in Toronto's Port Lands created by rerouting the Don River, opening in phases from July 2025.
Biodiversity Park (Argentina)
Biodiversity Park (Parque de la Biodiversidad): two Argentine sites of this name, the 17-hectare former Córdoba Zoo turned wildlife rescue and education park (reopened 2023, Ente BioCórdoba) and a 10-hectare protected landscape in Rivadavia, San Juan, from a 1979 fish-culture station.