PARK UTILITIES 



PARK LIGHTING 



Lighting, without doubt, is a matter of park necessity. Park 

 hghting should always be ample, though that is not to say it need be 

 offensively glaring — there is no reason why a park should be lighted as 

 brilliantly as a street, where all shadows must be dispelled to prevent 

 collision of vehicles. A certain sense of duskiness within a park pre- 

 cinct is very desirable of a summer evening, and could well be allowed 

 in as far as may be found compatible with order in the park. The 

 placing of light standards should be determined in general with regard 

 to even distribution of light and at the same time with reference to the 

 lines of the park design. It is obvious that a light should not be so 

 placed as to interfere during the day with view or vista, and thus 

 become a detracting element in the park design. In formal work, in 

 fact, they may be made to serve as very helpful accents of the design, 

 and should be used for this purpose by the park designer much as light 

 standards or other fixtures are used by architects in the composition 

 of their buildings. 



It is a foregone conclusion that in a park which is to be developed 

 to the highest artistic standards, appurtenances of the park should be 

 designed for beauty of individual detail. In the intensive develop- 

 ment of parks in foreign cities, even the receptacles for the depositing 

 of waste paper are designed conscientiously, as may be seen in the 

 illustration of the refuse baskets in the parks in Budapest. Light 

 standards, even more, should exhibit intelligent design, pleasing in 

 proportion and line. They should never appear over-ornamented. 

 Much has been accomplished in our cities within the last few years 

 toward the improvement of street lighting fixtures, but the good work 

 has rarely extended to an improvement of park lights. 



PARK UTILITIES OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE 



It will be found that any of the facilities enumerated cannot be 

 omitted without detracting from the success of the park. One need 



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