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hood parks, or neighborhood playfield-parks and large As can readily be seen from the table, the large 



properties. majority of these sites provide amply for playgrounds 



School Sites: The school sites classified according to for children and some of them are large enough td 



size are as follows: vr ? Total Acres P rov '^ e s P ac e for neighborhood playfields. 



Other Available Recreation Areas: National Forest 

 From I to 2 acres 4 5.50 . 



Reservations, county park 01 over 5,000 acres, beach 



From 2 to 3 acres 6 J 4- 2 5 . f ? i 



resorts, etc., are within easy reach of the people of the 



From 3 to 5 acres 25.50 / 



.-. city. Ihere are three private golf courses totaling 



Over 5 acres 3 15.00 



approximated 450 acres, and two large private estates- 



From 10 to 20 acres 5 74.00 



f^_ totalling 450 acres which are at times open to the 



Over 20 acres I 40.00 



public. 

 Totals 26 I74-25 



Other cities in this group especially worthy of mention include Colo- 

 rado Springs with 2,788.14 acres in 13 properties, exclusive of boulevards 

 and parkways; Petersburg, Virginia, with 506.6 acres in 6 properties;. 

 Meriden, Connecticut, with 1,344.5 acres in 5 properties; and Beaumont, 

 Texas, with 689.4 acres in 13 properties. A considerable number of the 

 cities are especially noteworthy because of the adequacy of their school 

 site areas. 



Group VI. Cities Having a Population of from 50,000 to 100,000. 



These numbered, in 1920, 76 cities comprising 5,265,747 inhabitants, or 

 5 per cent of the total population of the nation. In 1910 the percentage of 

 the total population was 4.5. 



Reports were received during the survey (1925-26) of 73 of the 76 

 cities in this group. The 73 cities were reported to have a total of 37,203.94 

 acres of park properties or an average of 509.64 acres per city. Taking 

 75,000 as an average population per city of this group, together with the 

 average acreage per city, the average ratio of park property to population 

 would be one acre to every 147 inhabitants. 



Fifteen cities were selected as most representative of this group because 

 of the gross acreage of their park properties. The average gross acreage 

 of these cities was 1,348.68 acres or 2.6 times the average for the entire 

 group reporting parks. The average number of park properties per city for 

 the 15 was between 21 and 22. 



While these 15 cities represent but 20 per cent of the total number 

 of cities reported, they had 20,230.29 acres of the total of 37,203.94 acres, 

 or 54 per cent of the total. The 15 had also in 1920 approximately 20 per 

 cent of the total population of all the cities of this group. 



The lack of uniformity in planning is still further shown by the fact 

 that ten cities, or only 13.6 per cent of the entire number reported, had 

 16,863.33 acres of the total of 37,203.94 acres of park properties, or 45 per 

 cent. The population of the ten cities was in 1920 only 828,584. 



In 14 of the 15 cities mentioned above the average acreage of school 



