The gardens and parks also open an hour earlier and stay open two hours later than the palace from April to October, making it even easier to beat the tourist rush.
Among the results, Roland Castro's team suggested a huge 250-acre park circled by skyscrapers, while Richard Rogers submitted designs for rooftop gardens and parks that will hang above the city's railways.
Gardens and riverside parks turned the riverfronts from slums to vibrant and welcoming destinations for residents and tourists alike.
It looked at listed buildings, unlisted buildings in conservation areas, scheduled monuments, and historic parks and gardens and based its figures on the sample size.
The historic environment includes historic buildings, ancient monuments (such as castles, abbeys, standing stones and industrial remains), shipwreck sites, archaeological sites, and historic parks, gardens and landscapes.
Just west of the city centre, near the main streets of Melville (7th Street) and Parkhurst (4th Street), botanical gardens, public parks and golf courses are surrounded by a moat of middle class suburbia.
Pedestrians walking the streets will be able to smell fresh-cut grass and hear gentle tinkling from fountains in parks and gardens.
"There are safe beaches, parks and gardens, and of course cheap alcohol and cigarettes, " she said.
Glasgow already has scores of public parks and gardens and enthusiasts argue that can give the city-dwelling bee a real boost.
These have included forest trees, trees in urban areas such as parks and gardens, and also young trees in nurseries.
Parks, gardens and green space in urban areas can improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people living there, says a University of Exeter study.
BBC: Green spaces boosts wellbeing of urban dwellers - study
The Oxford Heritage Assets Register is to include buildings, structures, parks and gardens not noted for their architectural interest but which make an "important contribution to the local economy, health and well-being of Oxford's citizens".
Spanish architects from Catalonia armed with the curvaceous ideas of modernisme rubbed shoulders with influential new US transplants enamoured by the City Beautiful Movement, a classical revival movement born in North America that emphasised monumental classical buildings interspersed with salubrious parks and gardens.
Orlando-based SeaWorld runs 11 theme parks, including Busch Gardens in Tampa and SeaWorlds in Orlando, San Diego, and San Antonio.
"I've got three parks the bees could fly to, they've got very nice gardens and it's a very nice area to keep bees in, " says Ed O'Brien.
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