East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . , those mostin need of access to small parks. The other playgroundsserve as local outing places for persons living nearby, butare limited in area, and most of them cannot be expectedto satisfy all the people that will eventually live withina radius of one-quarter mile of each playground upon anarea of approximately 100 acres, if that population mustdepend wholly upon those areas for its daily recreation. * Wood Island Park Playground, included in park, 10 Near to but not yet a part of East Boston. 34 City Planning Board. There were in 19
East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . , those mostin need of access to small parks. The other playgroundsserve as local outing places for persons living nearby, butare limited in area, and most of them cannot be expectedto satisfy all the people that will eventually live withina radius of one-quarter mile of each playground upon anarea of approximately 100 acres, if that population mustdepend wholly upon those areas for its daily recreation. * Wood Island Park Playground, included in park, 10 Near to but not yet a part of East Boston. 34 City Planning Board. There were in 1910 about 29,000 people living in Ward 2,on an area of 357 acres of land, much of which is devotedto commercial and industrial purposes, an average of eighty-one persons to the acre, of whom nearly 6,000 were betweenthe ages of five and fourteen years. In the ward there arenow acres of park or playground space, or an averageof less than 2 per cent of the area. The number of personsis increasing and will doubtless continue to increase, while. FIG. 11.—PARK SERVICE park areas or playgrounds, and the adjacent areas for which they may be considered toserve the local requirements, and showing in black the large areas for which there is no adequatepublic open space within reasonable walking distance. Figured on the assumption that no houseshould be more than a quarter of a mile from the nearest public open space, and that no public openspace will serve adequately for an area of which it occupies less than 5 per cent. the possibility of acquiring more space for their use, exceptat enormous cost, will become less. There are in addition to the areas above enumerated,private and public school yards and the public streets inwhich some provision for recreation can be made, but thesepossibilities also are limited and will tend to decrease asbuildings are extended over larger sections of the schoolyards and as the streets become more used for trafficpurposes. Developmen
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