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attraction to a plantinfr, and can bo very readily and tastefully worked into 

 the smallest of parks with slight expenditure. 



Plate 163 represents a type of treatment in which the dominant idea is that 

 of affording shade and grwnery for the playground, with shaded and attractive 

 approaches leading to it; and at the same time of affording a i)leasing view 

 from the streets without. This treatment is rather more formal than that of 

 the j)receding plan, hut is unavoidably so because of th« necessary shape and 

 size of the playground and because of its location in the center of the park. 

 Were this reservation made in one corner of th« block, it would allow greater, 

 unbroken park space and make possible a less formal scheme of i)hinting. 

 Sufficient shade is here available for copious seating arrang<'iiients so tiiat tlie 

 park as a whole might be made into a decidedly utilitarian project. 



Each of the accompanying line cuts represents a type of treatment that 

 might well be carried out in the park of minimum dimensions. Specific cases, 

 where distinctive problems arise and where special difficulties need to be over- 

 come, require individual treatment that will meet the requirements of the 

 locality and should be handled in a way to acquire the best results from the 

 material at hand and to take best advantage of any natural assets such as 

 contour, water facilities, and established trees. 



Every small town shoidd be able to boast of its public square, tastefully 

 planted to trees and shrubs. Every undeveloped city should establish and 

 maintain park spaces for the future, and thus avoid crime and squalor and 

 sometimes, possibly even death that comes as a result of overcrowding in which 

 insufficient opportunity is afforded to the laboring classes for indulgence in 

 and enjoyment of fresh air, verdure and sunshine. If we make of our towns 

 models, while young, they will continue to be models, when old, and will be 

 free from much of the wretchednes.s and disease and crime of the overgrown 

 metropolis. Let small city parks do their part in accomplishing this end. 



