Parks Their Design Equipment And Use

Author : George Burnap
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333317669
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Parks written by George Burnap and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Parks: Their Design, Equipment and Use But there are efficient parks, many of them, and the splendid spirit that in the past has prompted the acquisition of embryonic parks is now interesting itself more and more in their development to meet the needs for which such areas were acquired. Wlith the new posses sions there is becoming apparent a more painstaking study to find just the park chord that responds most harmoniously to the delight and benefit of the greatest number of adults and children. For the youth there has sprung up the specialised park known as the play ground. How far shall the average park serve as a playground? How may the playground serve as a park? This is the sort of question that enlists the thought of those seeking to encourage the setting aside of areas to be devoted to recreation. Parks serve, primarily, two functions - one of recreation, the other of decoration. Here again arises the query, where, if any, is the dividing line between them? There are countless examples of the purely decorative park that might, withmr. Burnap for the past five years has held the position of architect-in-chief of outdoor Washington, and his in uence is easily discernible in the artistic character our parks, squares and public grounds are taking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."