. Architect and engineer. aising park designs above the com-monplace as are the chemical reactions ofyeast in the making and raising of a suc-cessful loaf of bread. Setting aside the usual description ofpark plans as to the number and construc-tion details of tennis courts, sv^imming pools, auditoriums, pergolas, baseball dia-monds, or the length of drives, walks,flower borders and lawns—I would ask myreaders to take all this for granted and toseek out in park plans the Intent .andHuman Interest which should underlythe planning of parks. There are. ofcourse, many kinds of parks and each typeha
. Architect and engineer. aising park designs above the com-monplace as are the chemical reactions ofyeast in the making and raising of a suc-cessful loaf of bread. Setting aside the usual description ofpark plans as to the number and construc-tion details of tennis courts, sv^imming pools, auditoriums, pergolas, baseball dia-monds, or the length of drives, walks,flower borders and lawns—I would ask myreaders to take all this for granted and toseek out in park plans the Intent .andHuman Interest which should underlythe planning of parks. There are. ofcourse, many kinds of parks and each typehas definite characteristics while each sep-arate park should have a distinctive indi-viduality of its own. It is decidedly worthwhile to study and analyze park plans andparks, themselves, from the point of viewof human interest: and by so doing. I be-lieve each one of us will better appreciatethe aims and purposes of park design andwill find, within himself, a responsive in-terest that up to this time had never ^^0 RECREATION PARK. LONd BEACH. CALIFORNIA
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