PART IV 

 LANDSCAPE PARKS AND RESERVATIONS 



Man's need of recreation — Classification of outdoor recreation areas — Their 

 relation to the city plan : park systems — The large landscape park — Site 

 and available landscape character units — Extent and seclusion — Park 

 use and landscape units — Landscape characters best fitted to park use 

 — Pastoral landscape — Wooded landscape — Rocks and ledges — Brooks and 

 ponds — Uses properly served by a landscape park — Access and en- 

 trances — Circulation — Roads — Bridle paths — Footpaths — Interrelation 

 of roads and paths — Buildings properly serving park uses — Buildings in 

 relation to the park landscape — Minor structures : park furniture — Park 

 boundaries and gates — Landscape reservations : Municipal and Metro- 

 politan — Combination with other uses — State and National parks and 

 reservations — National planning. 



If any community of men is to be successful and permanent, Man's Need 

 It must provide for its members : a place to live, a place to v^^ork, °J Recreation 

 facilities for transportation, and opportunities for recreation and in- 

 spiration. In regard to transportation, vi^ater supply, waste disposal, 

 and defense, the activities of civilized communities have long been 

 organized on the basis that the community as a whole must perform 

 these services for each of Its members, and that each member shall 

 contribute to the support of the whole, or at least that certain designated 

 people should perform the services, with community support and under 

 community regulation. In all our larger communities It has become 

 necessary for the public to take over also the provision and supervision 

 of certain kinds of recreation. 



Every one needs recreation, that is, something to do and to think 

 of that Is not work, something different from the ordinary routine of 

 existence ; and every one at times needs Inspiration, that Is, something 

 to make him see the world and his place in it In some broader way, to 

 feel the presence of the larger forces of the universe. Men's recreations 



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