This Heat Map, attached, shows how much park activity has been displaced from City Park, in New Orleans.
The park in the middle of this pic. The top is the golf course--very low activity.
The bottom part is the "Wisner Tract", the soccer fields, and other parts of the park accessible to the public--highest activity. It's actually not that quiet, though, because it's close to an interstate bypass.
The middle is the Natural area and a fallow course that many people, including me and my dad, would go to exercise and get some quiet after Katrina.
Most of this area was converted and fenced off to make a golf course for a private developer in 2015.
Part of the justification was that "no one uses the old fallow golf course. Well,we knew it then, but now, some years later we have the data to prove it.
The fallow golf course was a great place to go, but the masters of City Park kicked us out.
On the other hand, we can argue that tilling the golf course, getting rid of it, will increase the use of the Park. So, it's nice to know you were right, even if we were kicked out of the Park.
S