LANDSCAPE DESIGN 



Park Bound- 

 aries and 

 Gaits 



Municipal and 

 Metropolitan 

 Landscape 

 Reservations 



It is practically impossible so to inclose a park that an active person 

 may not get in almost wherever he chooses. Nevertheless it is desir- 

 able that there should be a definite boundary around the park, and, iff 

 the city presses close upon the park, that this boundary should be diffi- 

 cult to pass except at designated entrances. The typical treatment of! 

 the boundaries of our parks is a wall or fence and within it a boundary 

 plantation. Reasonable economy as well as expression of the purpose 

 of the park would dictate that this wall or fence should be permanent, 

 but not ornate. A stone, or possibly concrete, wall is therefore in many 

 cases the best structure for the purpose. 



The main entrance to a landscape park should express the dignity, 

 of the park as an essential portion of the city plan, but it should alsc 

 suggest something of the character of the park. An elaborate archi- 

 tectural entrance, owing its beauty largely to cut-stone moldings 

 and sculpture, is from this point of view hardly ideal, except that some- 

 times it relates on its outer side to a formal plaza or the end of a great 

 avenue and might possibly require a certain elaboration to bear its 

 part in this composition. Usually, however, even here a simple anc 

 massive form would be more effective and more appropriate. 



Almost all the cities in this country are growing in population 

 many of them at a very rapid rate ; and there is at this time no appareni 

 reason that this growth should not continue for very many years to come 1 

 It lies in the power of the cities and metropolitan regions to see that thi: 

 growth shall be organized and directed so that the various necessities o: 

 existence for all the citizens may be best produced with least waste- 

 Nowhere may the benefits of an enlightened and far-seeing public poliq 

 be more evident than in the case of reservations of land for recreationa 

 and other public purposes. 



So long as the large public park remains upon the outskirts of thi 

 city, it may offer sufficient freedom and openness to satisfy almost al 

 the people, and the few who require more than this may be able to fine 

 it by journeying farther into the still unspoiled open country ; but ir 

 time the city will grow around the park ; and perhaps through the cuttinj 

 off of its distant views, certainly by its more intensive use, the park wil 

 become more humanized. In the meantime the outlying country wil 

 have turned from woodland to farms, from farms to gardens, an( 



