How Parks Lose Their Playfulness, By Thomas De Monchaux

Parks have been around as long as we can remember. At school we would play at parks, when you get home you begged your parents if you could go and play. When you turn into a teenager, you and your friends would hang around, maybe cause some trouble. During this time, you never looked at the park and thought “wow, why would we want to come here?” Have you ever driven past somewhere that you used to go as a teenager or a child and realize how much time has changed things, or how much things have gone downhill? This article really makes you think about that, how things used to be, rather than how they are now. Thomas de Monchaux in the 2017 article “How Parks Lose Their Playfulness,” argues that

In this article Thomas de Monchaux writes “masterpiece,” as a describing term for a park built in the 70’s. The use of the word masterpiece has a strong emotional appeal which brings in pathos. The author was talking about a beautiful “grown-up playground.” You can tell that it was amazing in its time. Later in the article de Monchaux says “But the park doesn’t do its job as well as it did,” because 40 years of use doesn’t have a great affect on the park. This beautiful “grown up playground” had seen its best days and without …show more content…
You think of kids playing or adults walking in the mornings. You don’t think of them as ran down and useless. When I was a kid all I wanted to do was go play at the park and run around, it was like a safe haven. My siblings get excited when my mom talks about going to the park. I couldn’t ever think about going past a park and not wanting to play on it, even as a young adult. To this day, I still think about Forest Park, not as a playground, but just as a beautiful sight to see. Walking around and admiring what they have built, the fountain and all of the little sculptures around. I could never think of a time where it would be considered to lose its