Why are playgrounds so abandoned?

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1. That playground is in the middle of nowhere.
   Afaik it’s Faros yeah?

2. These parks are usually filled towards the afternoon where its nice and cool with parents and their kids but if its in a secluded area relatively far from the nearest neighborhood then most visitors will be teens visiting at night to drink and to smoke.

3. I don’t know about this particular playground (looks like a municipal/public area) but I’ve seen quite a few situations where developers built a playground in an adjacent green area as a nod to the municipality or as marketing material to sell their properties, but they never bothered to budget for future maintenance, so you get these skeleton playgrounds everywhere.

4. It’s a legal requirement. When a developer buys up a certain amount of land to build a complex/neighborhood, they are obligated to allocate some of that land for public amenities, such as parks.

5. Second this. In general, I am left perplexed by infrastructure choices.

   Same as in your photos, the “park” nearby me is a bunch of nothing with a couple of nice, tall trees at the edges. None of the benches are placed under the tree shade, I’d prefer to go elsewhere rather than sit under a scorching sun.

   Yesterday, I went to the Geroskipou beach, it’s basically the same thing there – almost no amenities to hide from the sun, despite a nice shaded tree alley.

6. Because people dont use them. If you go to playgrounds that are being used, they take care of them. Why would the take care of it if nobody is using it

   They build one near my house. Nobody is using it so it will probably end up like this one

   At the same time, they kinda shit so maybe thats why nobody uses them. Am not sure if its one or the other

7. Because municipalities need to eat money, not fix playgrounds, duh!

8. Legal requirements for developers. Also, there is no shade, so summer time is off.

   A good playground are very popular. Those micro-playgrounds with almost nothing in them are usually not used, but occasionally kids decided that they want this particular slide.

9. Playgrounds have been dying since the advent of gaming consoles. Some parents/grandparents take their toddlers for an hour or two to meet up with other kids in some areas but those areas are usually more open, have more people and thus have more children to take for a relaxing, for the parents, time while the kids shout and mingle with one another.