Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. no. 462, 1928, Issue 462U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 |
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11 Not reported 1920 City area 1925-26-Continued Cities Popula 1926-Continued City 2.-Aggregate park acreage 20 acres 4.-Growth of municipally acre of park acreage in municipalities acres Area acres in playgrounds Area ber acres area in acres Area of parks boulevards Calif Cedar Falls city limits City owned park commissioners Conn Cook County division Essex County expenditures Figures not obtainable Fort Worth golf courses Horace McFarland Hudson Counties improvements including 1 acre inside limits Iowa Kans land purchases Mass Minneapolis municipalities of 5,000 municipally owned parks obtainable for 1926 Ohio Okla outdoor recreation park and recreation park board Park department Park Executives park planning park properties park spaces City parks and park parkways recreation areas recreation facilities recreation system report number Ski jumps spaces in cities Springfield TABLE 2.-Aggregate park TABLE 4.-Growth Texarkana Theodore Wirth tion 1920 City TRIANGLE UNION COUNTY Washington West Hoboken Westchester County Youngstown
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Page 7 - War, and the playground movement, which arose in the next decade (18801890), failed to gather much momentum until after the close of the century. ACREAGE OF MUNICIPALLY OWNED PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS The limited number of communities under 2,500 population reporting parks is an index of the lack of play facilities in numerous villages and rural districts. Millions of the small-town people have no park or playground space. Open fields and vacant lots they have, to be sure, but anyone who knows village...
Page 3 - Use of current funds of the park and recreation department or by direct appropriation of a municipal or county government; proceeds from the sale of bonds secured by general taxation, by special assessments, or by a combination of these methods; installment payments out of the net proceeds obtained from the operation of the particular project itself; proceeds from gifts, donations, devises, and bequests; acquisition of properties through use of the principle of excess condemnation or excess purchase....
Page 9 - New York and Chicago are richly endowed in outlying reservations. Philadelphia has no such advantage. Table 1 shows the total acreage of municipally owned parks and recreation spaces in the United States in 1925-26, by population groups. Table 2 gives detailed data by individual cities. TABLE 1. — Acreage of municipally owned parks and recreation spaces in the United States, 1925-26, by population groups 1 Exclusive of S50 acres in township park within city limits of Ypungstown, Ohio.
Page 2 - County, 1ll., and Westchester County, NY Under certain conditions counties are admirably adapted to park planning and they offer an undeveloped field of tremendous importance in the general outdoor recreation movement. Although many of the outstanding county park systems have been designed as units for handling metropolitan park problems, it is conceivable that the greatest field of usefulness of this type of system will be in providing recreation opportunities for the rural districts and the people...
Page 3 - Among the structures used primarily for recreation reported by many cities are boathouses, grandstands, bathhouses, and dancing pavilions. Ninety-four cities reported 99 zoological gardens. Comfort buildings are the most numerous of the park structures reported. The park departments in the 117 cities reporting 1,427 picnic places are playing a large part in the movement to encourage outdoor activities on the part of families and community groups. PARK FINANCES The capital investment represented in...