DETAILED REPORTS 



OF 



DESIGN, SUPERINTENDENCE AND CONSTRUCTION. 



HEADS OF DETAILED REPORTS. 



PROSPECT PARR. 



Development of the Design. 

 Public use of the Park. 



TIIE PARK-WAY. 



Approaches and Connections. 



Relations of the Park to the street arrangements of the City. 



Elements of ordinary street arrangements. 



Why ordinary arrangements are inadequate to public requirements. 



Historical development of existing street arrangements — First stage. 



Second stage of street arrangements. 



Third stage of street arrangements. 



Erroneous view of the necessary disadvantages of town life. 



Evils of town life have diminished as towns have grown larger. 



Reason for anticipating an accelerated enlargement of metropolitan 



towns. 

 Conditions under which the evils of large towns have diminished. 

 Change in habits of citizens affecting structural requirements of towns. 

 Separation of business and domestic life. 

 Recreative requirements and distance of suburbs. 

 Change in the character of vehicles. 

 Inadequate domestic access to suburbs and Parks. 

 Xew arrangements demanded by existing requirements. 

 The position of Brooklyn. 

 The opportunity of Brooklyn. 



How the opportunity may be misused, and how availed of. 

 Influence of the Park on the value of property. 

 How the advantages of vicinity to a Park may be extended. 



