PARK LIGHTING 



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expensive, while the armored parkway cable can be laid in the turf with 

 very little labor, is easily repaired and will give excellent service. Since 

 special equipment, 

 construction and 

 maintenance costs 

 are practically con- 

 stant for all sizes of 

 lamps, and since c 

 electrical energy and f ^ 

 lamp renewals (the 

 outstanding varia- 

 bles) constitute but 

 a. minor proportion 

 of the total annual 

 operating cost, 

 lamps smaller than 

 twenty-five hundred 

 lumens (250 candle 

 power) should not 

 be considered. 



The placing of 

 the lighting stand- 

 ards should be deter- 

 mined with regard 

 to an even distribu- 

 tion of light and with 

 reference to the lines 

 of the park design. It 

 is obvious that light- 

 ing standards should 

 not be so placed as to 

 interfere during the 

 day with view or 

 vista and thus be- PLATE No - 286 - PLAY HOURS MAY BE DOUBLED OR TRIPLED 



,. BY NIGHT LIGHTING 



come a distracting 



element. In formal parks, in fact, they may be made to serve as a very 

 helpful accent to the design and should be used for this purpose by the 

 park designers in much the same way as ornamental fixtures are used by 

 architects in the composition of the buildings. Ornamental standards may 

 be obtained in various designs to fit in with the different classes of land- 

 scape architecture. Cast iron, pressed steel and hollow concrete are all 



