. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . pl. xx.~- morningside park yiS^A^ Hai20MIW5IOM —.XX .jq. CHAPTER XX BREATHING SPACES The demand for parks, with their groves, meadows,lakes, and rambles, dates back to the hanging gardens ofBabylon, if not to the Garden of Eden. Mankind hasalways loved the open spaces, especially when shut up incities; and to-day, whenever an odd acre comes into acitys possession, its Common Council is straightway in-vited to make a park of it and name it after the last states-man of the town. This demand does not come solely from those who feedth
. The new New York : a commentary on the place and the people . pl. xx.~- morningside park yiS^A^ Hai20MIW5IOM —.XX .jq. CHAPTER XX BREATHING SPACES The demand for parks, with their groves, meadows,lakes, and rambles, dates back to the hanging gardens ofBabylon, if not to the Garden of Eden. Mankind hasalways loved the open spaces, especially when shut up incities; and to-day, whenever an odd acre comes into acitys possession, its Common Council is straightway in-vited to make a park of it and name it after the last states-man of the town. This demand does not come solely from those who feedthe squirrels and study the birds. Everybody recognizesthat parks are something of the country in the city, thatthey mean much pleasure to the town-dwellers, and arebeautiful fields of color in a wilderness of steel and , they are supposed to add to urban healthful-ness. Settlement workers and city-beautiful folk talkabout them as Hhe lungs of the city; and possiblysome fancy we should stop breathing without enough, they are considered desirable posses-sions. But the lung metaphor is some
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