Park Cities is a term commonly used in reference to two communities in Dallas County, the town of Highland Park and the city of University Park. Wilbur David Cook, the landscape designer who had planned Beverly Hills, California, and George E. Kessler, who had previously planned Fair Park, were hired to design Highland Park's layout in 1907 'as a refuge from an increasingly diverse city.' University Park began as a cluster of homes surrounding the fledgling Southern Methodist University, which was founded in the then-rural Dallas County in 1915.

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