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nasium or restricted playfield, for very intensive use by boys over 

 twelve. 



The district playground or playfield, for the active play of adults 

 and young people over twelve, in games taking considerable space, like 

 baseball, football, tennis, and track athletics. 



The recreation center, perhaps combining all the above. 



Special facilities depending upon local opportunities, such as swim- 

 ming pools, wading pools, skating ponds, facilities for bathing in lake, 

 river, or ocean ; specially developed viewpoints and so on. 



The small park, or "in-town park," serving a dense surrounding 

 population, not pretending to a rural appearance but depending upon 

 its design, its foliage and flowers, sometimes upon architectural acces- 

 sories, providing amusements which can be enjoyed by crowds, and 

 making the crowd a part of its design. "Commons," "public gardens," 

 many of our larger so-called "squares," are of this type. The "prome- 

 nade," which may be classed here, is most characteristically adapted to 

 crowds, and dependent upon them. Our "parkways," which serve 

 as pleasure traffic connections for our large parks, have a local use in 

 some cases like small parks. In modern German practice, this general 

 conception of predominantly formal design is applied also to parks of 

 considerable extent, which with us would be treated rather as land- 

 scape parks.* 



The large landscape park, or "country park," designed to give, as 

 far as is consistent with fairly intensive use, all the sense of freedom 

 that the unspoiled country gives, and being the nearest thing to un- 

 spoiled country that most of the city dwellers can commonly take time 

 to enjoy. It is fitted to receive large crowds and not to be destroyed 

 by them, and indeed not to be crowded by them, for its main use is 

 still to relieve a man from too close contact with his fellows. 



The "reservation," a public holding of country land, perhaps in 

 connection with public forests or water supply, made accessible by 

 roads, it may be, but not yet developed for intensive recreational use, 

 and frequented mostly by picnic parties and others spending at least Relation of 

 several hours at a time in the open. Recreation 



The size of the areas for these various purposes, their location in cit^Plan* 



* Cf. Chapter IV, p. 54. Park Systems 



