Once a home to industry and its contaminated soils, a new central park for a northwest Shanghai district becomes a lush multi-ecosystem environment that brings biodiversity into the dense city. Achieving 70 percent tree coverage within the site, Taopu Central Park (桃浦中央绿地) becomes a healing lung for the city while providing ample space for universally accessible recreation and pedestrian activity spread across 237 acres, with multiple transit-proximate entrances.
The overall shape of the park is long and narrow, 300 meters wide from east to west and 1,600 meters long from north to south. When the whole project is completed, the park will expand into a J shape consisting of A, B and C regions. Meanwhile, flood mitigating strategies built into the park around its wetlands—including permeable pavement at roadways—lead to a massive underground pool capable of storing nearly 8 million gallons of water per day. Islands, bridges, and pavilions provide a variety of experiences for visitors to the park to re-engage with sculpted aquatic habitats.
The GZ is on the Maple Islands in B Region of the park. Three big stones are close together beside the pathway. The cache container (a 5cm white bottle) is in the central gap between the stones, covered by a small stone and maple leaves.
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