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PARKS 



GAME AND SPORT FACILITIES IN LARGE PARKS 



In the designs of the earliest large parks in this country very little 

 provision was made for games and sports. In fact it was considered a 

 principle of good design that the introduction of facilities for highly organ- 

 ized games was incompatible with the primary purposes and aims of a large 

 park. Facilities for water recreation and winter sports were often included, 

 and the game of tennis was permitted. But on the whole these provisions 

 for active recreation were rigidly subordinated to landscape effects and to 

 passive and semi-active uses. Many of these earlier large parks have become 

 largely transformed during the past twenty-five years or less because of 

 the extensive introduction into their areas of a great variety of active recrea- 

 tion facilities. It is to be expected, of course, that as a city spreads and 

 the population completely surrounds these large areas, there will be greater 



PLATE No. 88. BALL FIELD, GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 



Illustrating the use of a large meadowlike space in a large park for organized games. 



