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What's Keeping Kansas City Parks From Being Major Destinations? A Shameful History

After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: our parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.

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