PARK DESIGN IN CITY PLANNING 



and recommendation of the respective park areas. Furthermore, if 

 city planning is to be practical, the development of its parks must 

 prove profitable ; and the parks will not confer direct pecuniary benefits 

 on a city unless sufficiently assured of development that the citizens 

 can place reliance on the character each park will ultimately have, to 

 the extent of launching building operations in accordance with and to 

 some extent in advance of its actual improvement. 



SPECIAL FAVOURITISM VERSUS LOGICAL ALLOTMENT 



The sixth and final recommendation is that an impartial system 

 of park expenditure be adopted. Projected park development will 

 serve as stimulus for civic growth only when the citizens have con- 

 fidence in its eventual execution. The too prevalent condition of park 

 development being dependent upon political pull must go; sectional 

 favouritism must give way to logical allotment, and expenditures must 

 be in accordance with park requirements rather than according to the 

 dictates of those in power. The public mind, in turn, must be made to 

 understand that evenly distributed expenditure throughout all sections 

 of a city may represent the most illogical of all methods of park 

 development; that a park system is the possession of the city as a 

 whole, each section benefiting in proportion to its civic participancy. 

 An honest policy of park development, with civic betterment for its 

 goal, must govern its appropriations and expenditures in accordance 

 with carefully prepared estimates based upon accepted and published 

 park plans, all component and contributing to the execution of a 

 consistent city plan. 



