Griftpark
Neighbourhood park on a former gasworks site, with a skate park, children's farm and sculptures.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Griftpark in Utrecht starts with a barrel that local children found in the ground where they played, and with the question of who answers for a poisoned neighbourhood. It reaches back to the coal-fired gasworks that lit the city's street lamps for almost a century, and forward to residents, a national minister and a council weighing what a cleanup could cost. Best heard from the lawns near the skate park and the children's farm.
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