through history Lucknow has been a city of parks.whether it were the Nawans or the British or in the recent times the various political regimes owing allegiance to right wing,socialist and the social engineering ideologies.
i do not see any city in India which has become the experimenting(read and its expression) ground of the political ideologue which each of these powers have expressed.
the parks in their constant reinvention have evolved from public spaces to private ones to the absurd display of political might.