Parks and park engineering . ecessary to pave the entire gutter. It is often enoughto place the blocks every foot or two, which is sufficient toprevent the washing away of the gravel. (2) Shape in Plan. Park walks may be either straightor curved, depending on the nature of the design. Inthe formal garden the straight walk is proper, but in theinformal design straight lines should be avoided. Curvesshould not be laid out arbitrarily. A curve should alwayshave its reason. This is afforded by a natural obstacle orby the topography. If natural obstacles do not exist, theycan be introduced in the d
Parks and park engineering . ecessary to pave the entire gutter. It is often enoughto place the blocks every foot or two, which is sufficient toprevent the washing away of the gravel. (2) Shape in Plan. Park walks may be either straightor curved, depending on the nature of the design. Inthe formal garden the straight walk is proper, but in theinformal design straight lines should be avoided. Curvesshould not be laid out arbitrarily. A curve should alwayshave its reason. This is afforded by a natural obstacle orby the topography. If natural obstacles do not exist, theycan be introduced in the design. (3) Wings. In order to increase the effective width ofa park walk, wings of gravel 4 feet wide on each side areoften used. These wings may have the full cinder foun-dation as in the cement, asphalt or brick pavement. Ineconomical construction the cinder foundation is omitted.(See Fig. 15, on page 47.) When the paths are not crowded,all of the walking will be on the middle part, the wings 66 DESIGN Center Line to which. Path should be Tangent Location of Pathgoverned buTopographyand naturalobstacles
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