I don't know about other cities, but the ones I've lived near were simply too irregularly shaped. NYC was able to be built like a grid, but a city like, say, Buffalo (go Bills!) is both too wibbly wobbly as well as too cold to envision a park being used as a centerpiece.
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Kings park, Perth.
Bigger than central park and high up on the only hill for miles
One of the great design tricks of Central Park is that at almost every entrance you go downhill. You are instantly cut off from the city noise.
Chicago has a huge lakefront park as well as large parks throughout neighborhoods connected by grassy and tree-lined avenues. Not quite Central Park but a lot of great park space throughout for residents.
Came here to say this. The large parks connected by tree lined boulevards is called the Emerald Necklace.
Some cities did, like Vancouver. But others thought it too expensive to the taxpayers and are now kicking themselves decades later. Or the taxpayers didn't want to support it back then.
Louisville has Cherokee park that was designed by Olmsted, same dude as Central Park.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted
When I lived there I loved to go dirt trail running in the middle of the city.
Detroit has Belle Isle which was designed by the same guy who did Central Park.
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Hyde Park in Sydney
Paris in France has a few parks and gardens. It’s weird to thing that the US invented the concept: https://www.evous.fr/Guide-des-plus-beaux-parcs-et-jardins-de-Paris,1176706.html
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Forest Park, St Louis MO
Because its really hard to do it retroactively. Not too many people cared about its aesthetic/health or public value when compared to the commercial real estate value
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The English Garden in Munich comes close: A long park reaching almost into the very center of the city.
Vancouver - Stanley Park (downtown), Queen Elizabeth Park (geographic center), Central Park (Metrotown)... The lack of parks in US cities is a matter of poor planning.
@someguy3 Portland, Oregon has the largest urban park in the country, Forest Park, but it is forested an not a garden park. Also it is on the edge of the city instead of Central.
Of the top of my head (because I lived there) - Berlin has Tiergarten and London has Hyde Park. The latter is so so in size but the former is quite large.
Thinking further, I remembered that Paris has the Champ de Mars (surrounding the Eiffel Tower), which is about Hyde Park size.
Also plenty of cities have large forested areas that merge with the city proper and are not too far from the center, such as for example Grouse Mountain on the north side of Vancouver and Monsanto on the west side of Lisbon.
Notice how even the cities in Europe were space has been at a premium for a lot longer than in the Americas do at times have a big centrally located park.
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Possible answers include: Because this concept is not suitable for every city. Because there are other ways to introduce greenery into the city center, like many bigger or smaller parks.
We have lots of large parks in my city. Not central park sized, but we are not an NYC sized city. It's basically a small city incorporated into the forest. Sometimes they try to capitalize some of it, but the voters reliably shut them down, we love our green spaces.