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Contested parks

Parks where public sentiment most disagrees with the model. We collect simple thumbs-up / thumbs-down feedback on every park detail page; here we surface the parks where the up/down split is closest to 50/50 (i.e. opinion is genuinely split). The goal is to help us see where the model is missing something the metrics can’t pick up: programming, perceived safety, time-of-day character.

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Each park needs at least three votes before it can land here. As people vote on the detail pages, this list will populate with the parks whose up/down split is genuinely close.

Why this page exists

Algorithmic urbanism has a real failure mode: it can score a park well on every measurable dimension and still be wrong about how that park actually feels. Programming, time-of-day character, social composition, perceived safety, the texture of the people who use the park: these don’t show up in OSM tags or building footprints. Public votes are a thin signal but a real one.

We treat this list as a backlog of cases the model should learn from, not as a verdict.