Unlike many other cities in Europe, London lacks the common attributes of a large city. Its centre, for example, shows few outward signs of density - no closely packed urban blocks, no streets gasping for a view of the sky - and its identity lies not in squares, streets and yards but in a network of of ten interconnecting parks and gardens. These and the many other open spaces are of ten difficult to categorise. Where the land is not paved or covered in tarmac and where species are not groomed and domesticated nature grows wherever it can and in whatever ways it desires.
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