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Distribution of parks in US neighbourhoods reveals racial disparities

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New York,Thomson Reuters Foundation Parks in primarily non-white neighbourhoods are half the size and five times as crowded as parks in mostly white neighbourhoods, putting communities of colour at risk during the summer heat, research showed on Wednesday. In low-income neighbourhoods, parks are four times smaller and four times more crowded on average than parks […]