What about cities that dont have a lot of high rises?
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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.
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.
Vancouver has Stanley Park right in the city too
Well, I've only visited for a few days and I like hiking so naturally I only had eyes for Grouse Mountain ... ;)
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.
Park Slonski - Silesian Park in Upper Silesia in South Poland is much better than Central Park in NY. You should see it if you come to Poland.