RECREATION PARKS 



ning as the comprehensive design of a park system. Each individual 

 park of a well-designed system is located with reference to zones of 

 influence, is characterised in relation to the other parks and contributes 

 to the effectiveness of the system as a whole. The different features 

 of a recreation park correspond to the individual parks of a park 

 system, and follow much the same law in the reciprocity of design and 

 placing. Exactly as a park system aims to serve uniformly an entire 

 city, a recreation park should strive in the distribution of its features 

 of interest to utilise the entire acreage of a park, developing equally 

 its farthermost points, and thus serving as large a multitude of people 

 as possible without congestion at any point. 



ENTRANCE AND CIRCULATION 



The entrance should be spacious and expressive of the character 

 and importance of the park. It may be marked with gate-posts, lodges, 

 or other architectural structures, but provision against congestion is 

 of prime importance. One of the first steps in the recent project to 

 transform the historic Fort McHenry at Baltimore into a park has 

 been the acquisition by the city of adequate area to provide a forecourt 

 at the entrance, a wise preliminary to the construction of the memorial 

 gateway contemplated. A poorly composed or congested entrance 

 treatment often maligns a well-arranged and well-studied park within. 

 There should be adequate space provided for arrival and circulation, 

 with wide promenades leading from the entrance in straight-away 

 fashion. An incident of some of our recent American park designs 

 are esplanades and open turf panels designated as " greetings " but 

 located at very nearly the centre of the park. Such greetings could 

 more logically be located at the main entrance, serving to handle the 

 congestion at that point and to distribute the crowd of visitors into the 

 several walks of the park system. 



The main scheme or framework of a recreation park will usually 



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