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suggest the two. The city square or plaza is the city 

 representative of the village common : this latter 

 being only a rural plaza whereon the green-sward is 

 a more economic and appropriate pavement than 

 stones ; the incessant traffic and wear of a metropolis 

 do not blot the grass. 



The park represents not only a demand for space 

 and trees, but a revival and reassertion of country 

 instincts which city associations are only too apt to 

 infold and entomb ; but, however drearily infolded, 

 there comes some day to all denizens of cities a resur- 

 rection of those earlier rural instincts which crave 

 growth and food an outburst, through all the stony 

 interstices of pavement, of the love of trees and 

 green things. Not until a city has become so large 

 as to deny to very many living in its interior intimate 

 association and familiarity with the encompassing 

 belt of country will this new need declare itself 

 strongly. Nay, in a city, whose elevated situation, 

 gives outlook from its open spaces upon great fields 

 of greenness around it, such need of park land will 

 not for a long period of years be felt. 



Eventually, not only will the instinctive rural 

 longings of the masses stimulate to this struggle to 

 recover the lost birthright of trees and turf, but the 

 very vanities of city growth will demand a larger 

 airing than populous streets can supply ; and the man 



