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PARKS 



ment between the city and suburban sections rather than pleasure drive- 

 ways. At the same time, the peaceful, quiet atmosphere of the parks has 

 been to a great degree destroyed. The usefulness of these driveways for 

 pleasure driving can be gauged when one remembers that an automobile 

 going at the rate of twenty miles an hour would run through a park of a 

 square mile area (if in the form of a square) in about three minutes, and if 

 it ran completely around the park would take only about twelve minutes. 

 Very few motorists like to be so circumscribed in their driving. 



The inclusion of automobile pleasure driveways in the design of any 

 large park of less than six or eight hundred acres should be seriously ques- 

 tioned, and in most instances they should be absolutely excluded from an 

 interior of the park. It would perhaps be better design to construct the 

 pleasure driveways in the form of boulevards or parkways around the park 

 or along one rather than through it. 



2. Service-pleasure driveways. Even though pleasure driveways were 

 excluded from the smaller of the large parks, it would still be necessary to 



PLATE No. 85 



A SECTION OF BROOKSIDE PARK, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 

 DEVOTED TO ACTIVE RECREATION 



Swimming center, athletic field, parking facilities and stadium are shown in the distance. Other active 

 recreation facilities in Brookside Park, which contains 516 acres, include: five tennis courts; ten-acre children's 

 playground; stadium seating 60,000 and costing $300,000; riding academy; twelve miles of bridle paths; three 

 miles of driveways; fifty picnic nooks equipped with tables, benches and ovens. (See pages 191-201.) 



