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...self-important streak that rivals that of his namesake?was one of the very few dogs in our Beijing neighborhood. Other people on my street kept pets. There were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through the sky with whistles attached to their tails, the occasional rabbit. Genghis, however, was a novelty; he scared children and grown men alike...
...PARKS Central Park This comprehensive, interactive guide to one of the world's most famous public spaces offers up-to-date information on 43 different attractions, from the Carousel to the Conservatory Garden, Strawberry Fields to the Swedish Cottage. A model of organization and design, it's a pleasure to navigate...
...essential element of most great skate parks is the bowls--rounded craters that can be as deep as 12 ft., which skaters can barrel down, building enough speed to coast along the walls and climb the rim. All bowls--round, oval and peanut-shaped--are descended from the ur-bowl of skateboarding, an empty swimming pool. But park design has moved far from the basic pool formations. "Now it's about taking those and intersecting them," says Hollyday. "I have to keep thinking of the next shape...
Like a lot of skate-park designers, Mark Hubbard, a former pro skater who is the founder of Grindline, got his start constructing swimming pools, a job that let him hang around those beautiful smooth surfaces. Now his 50-person outfit works on six parks at a time. And although Hubbard is 35, he still tries them out when they're done. "I'll skate until I can't anymore," he says. "And then I'll keep building. There are a lot of towns in America, and they could all use a skate park...
...Winter Park...