THE CLASSIFICATION OF PARKS 



city parks are classed as county parks. The Parkway and 

 Boulevard are connecting arteries which join the parks of a 

 system. The Boulevard is the more formal of the two and 

 often is nothing more than a beautified avenue, while a 

 Parkway is much broader, often about 400 feet wide, and 

 may be laid out in a semi-informal manner. 



Another classification used in some cities is, 1. City 

 Parks; and 2. Outer Parks. The City Parks are 

 those inside, and the Outer Parks those outside the 

 city limits. The second division of this classification 

 includes the reservation lands and the connecting park- 

 ways. 



The accompanying map of the Essex County system, 

 Fig. 2, page 11, shows a modern and scientific park develop- 

 ment. But few of the original parkways as planned by 

 Olmsted Brothers, the landscape architects, have been laid 

 out, though some of these may come later. 



ACTUAL RESULTS 



The results of the last twenty-five years of this great 

 movement have been especially remarkable, though a 

 few of our older cities had parks prior to 1890. It is out- 

 side the scope of this book to make a full statement of park 

 accomplishments in America, which are now very extensive, 

 almost all of our larger cities having caught the spirit of 

 the movement. In order, however, to give some idea of 

 its development and magnitude, a few typical and impor- 

 tant cases will be cited. 



NEW YORK. The greatest pioneer work in America, 

 though not the earliest, was the construction of Central 

 Park. The land was purchased in 1856. The total acre- 

 age at present is 840 and the price paid for the land was 

 $6,300,000. The total amount spent in bringing the park 



