CHAPTER XXI 



GENERAL REFERENCES TO LITERATURE ON PARKS 



The literature on parks is widely scattered through many different 

 kinds of publications. It is to be found chiefly in periodicals, park planning 

 reports, reports of park departments, United States Census Bureau reports, 

 city planning reports, in pamphlets dealing with specific phases of park 

 problems and in books dealing with city planning, landscape gardening or 

 architecture, horticulture, forestry, organized recreation, etc. It is inter- 

 esting to note that during the entire history of park planning, development 

 and operation in the United States only two general works upon the subject 

 have appeared and one of these is devoted chiefly to park engineering. 



In this manual, bibliographies have for the most part been placed 

 within or at the end of chapters in as close proximity as possible to the 

 text subjects to which they refer. The general references forming the sub- 

 ject matter of this chapter are intended to give a brief resume of the general 

 literature on parks. 



BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



KIMBALL, THEODORA. "Manual of Information on IV. Play Facilities 98 



City Planning and Zoning." Harvard University V. Organization and Administration .... 163 



Press, Cambridge, 1923, 1 88 pages. This entire manual VI. The Growth of the Community Recreation 



is invaluable to the city planner and the park planner. Movement 84 



The bibliographies referring specifically to parks and Grand total of references in bibliographies 753 

 recreation are to be found on pages 148-156 inclusive. 



Bibliography on Parkways, Boulevards and Pleasure SOME BOOKS TO SERVE AS A LIBRARY OF A DEPART- 



Roads, page 124. These, with other references scat- MENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Landscape 



tered through other sections of the manual, make the Architecture, January, 1927, pages 156-160. This 



most complete bibliography on parks and allied sub- bibliography, prepared by Miss Katherine McNamara, 



jects extant. Chairman, Committee on Libraries and Collections, 



PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF National Conference on Instruction in Landscape 



AMERICA. "The Normal Course in Play," A. S. Barnes Architecture, is intended to function as the title indi- 



& Company, New York, 1925. At the close of each of cates. However, park executives who are especially 



the following chapters there is an extensive bibliog- interested in the technical details of the landscape 



raphy covering the field of organized play and recrea- phases of their work will find in this bibliography 



tion quite thoroughly: something touching upon every phase of landscape art. 



No. RECREATION DEPARTMENT, RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDA- 



References TION, 130 East Twenty-Second Street, New York 



I. The Community Recreation Program . . 301 City. "Sources of Information on Play and Recrea- 



II. The Nature and Function of Play .... 87 tion." This is an extensive bibliography of literature 



III. Leadership 20 on all phases of the leisure time movement. 



BOOKS 



BURNAP, GEORGE. "Parks- Their Design, Equip- city planning, principles of park design, character and 

 ment and Use." J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila- methods of treatment of "passing-through" parks, 

 delphia, 1916, 328 pages, 160 illustrations, 4 diagrams. neighborhood parks, recreation parks; playgrounds in 

 Some of the subjects discussed include park designs in parks, effigies and monuments, architecture and seats 



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