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daytime and nighttime activities in urban centers throughout the 

 entire year. 



32. Parks and open spaces should be located so as to insure that 

 they are fully accessible to the interests and needs of all age groups. 



33. Emphasis in open space planning should be placed upon the 

 correlation of the many factors of physical and social significance 

 such as building types, trafficways, trees, relationship to neighboring 

 communities and to places of work, play, school, and worship. 



34. Open space and facilities should be placed and designed so as 

 to make them a part of the daily living environment of the people. 



35. Barriers to participation should be removed and opportunities 

 provided for all citizens to use open space and recreational areas. 

 We must provide contact with beauty for all. In the words of Presi- 

 dent Johnson, "It means not just easy physical access, but equal 

 social access for rich and poor, Negro and white, city dweller and 

 farmer." 



36. We recommend development of a city wide beautification 

 committee composed of public and private interests that can co- 

 ordinate total community efforts in a cleanup, fixup, planting, and 

 improve the townscape program. 



37. We recommend adaptation of open space planning of a dimen- 

 sion similar to Conant's theory of the assignment of our best teachers 

 and facilities to schools in our slum and blighted areas. It would 

 involve the application of new concepts in the design and social use 

 of green space in the deprived and depressed areas of our American 

 urban centers. 



38. Effective legislation and administrative procedures must be 

 established to prevent the disposition of land now in public owner- 

 ship until it has been conclusively established that it is not needed 

 for park purposes. 



39. Land in public or quasi-public ownership, or the air rights 

 above it, should be considered for open space-recreation use. 



40. Rather than preempt open space, garages and parking spaces 

 should contribute their roofs for open space purposes. 



41. In the planning and construction of our urban expressway 

 systems, adequate land should be taken to insure not only planted 

 buffer areas between the expressway and the neighborhood, but to 

 yield park and play areas as well. 



42. Legislation should be enacted allowing subdistrict park devel- 

 opment of open spaces, as in cluster developments. 



