DESIGN OF PARK AND RECREATION AREAS 137 



Suggestions for space divisions in areas of larger size follow: 

 Playfield of ten acres. 



a. Space for children's playground, about 2 acres 



b. Space for women's and girls' athletic field, about 2 acres 



c. Space for men's and boys' athletic field, about. ..." 4 acres 



d. Space for small park, about I acre 



e. Space for community house, swimming pool, and additional parking, about I acres 



Playfield of twenty acres. 



a. For children's playground, about 3 acres 



b. For women's and girls' athletic field, about 4 acres 



c. For men's and boys' athletic field, about 6 acres 



d. For park and parking, about 6 acres 



e. For site for community house and swimming pool and grounds adjacent, about. . . I acre 



Some General Considerations Relative to Layout of Playfield Areas. 



1. Pleasure Driveways. Pleasure driveways should never be permitted 

 in neighborhood playfield areas, no matter how large those areas may be. 

 Only such service driveways as are absolutely essential to maintenance and 

 operation of the playfield should be introduced into the design. 



2. Fencing. In congested residential sections of cities, playfield areas 

 will generally have a minimum acreage, that is, they will rarely ever be 

 over ten acres, and very few will be as large. In such situations it is highly 

 desirable that the total area be fenced with a strong woven wire or iron 

 picket fence at least seven feet high. This is for the purpose of better 

 disciplinary control, protection of apparatus, structures, and border plan- 

 tations. For purposes of better organization control and to give more 

 exclusiveness to girls, women and children, it is desirable that fences sepa- 

 rate the various space divisions of the playfield area. If plantations are 

 used as borders between various space divisions the fences will also serve 

 as a measure of protection. 



In residential districts composed chiefly of one-family houses it is not 

 so important to introduce a border fence into the design, although if the 

 area is comparatively small it is desirable to have it fenced. It would likely 

 be quite possible in districts of low density of population to establish and 

 maintain border plantations without the protection afforded by a fence. 



3. Path-ways. As a rule all pathways in playfield areas should run in 

 straight lines except in the space allotted to a park. A good position for 

 such pathways is on the lines marking the various space divisions. How- 

 ever, it might be possible in the larger areas to lay out the games and sports 

 areas in the form of large ovals with plantations of trees around them and 

 the pathways laid down with curved lines through the plantations. 



Neighborhood Playfield Plans. The accompanying plans Plates 46, 

 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 57 illustrate the design of a num- 

 ber of neighborhood playfields and playfield-parks. An additional design 



