This chapter was about how urban parks play an important role in creating diversity among the urban people. The way to create a successfully intergrated park is to provide easy access like a train near by and it should welcome all those who wish to enter rather than favoring one culture or group more than the other. Sometime parks are redesigned to create a attraction for tourists or to try and keep an unfavorable group of people in a park. Low also discussed the fear of the "other" that emerged post 9/11. Culture diversity is threatened by this fear that exists among Americans. There is a trend of people moving to rural areas to escape the roaring number of immigrants in urban community. This trend is also a result of the fear of the "other". Parks play a special role in trying to maintain social diversity which is essential in urban life.
I think this chapter was very interesting because I never realized how important park are even though I use them all the time in the summer. Now when I see a park I see it differently. I can see that certain ethnic groups are concentrated in certain parks and not many parks have this ideal integration.
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