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Facilities

PHILADELPHIA

American Academy of Political and Social Science

1910

CONTENTS

THE PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES IN THE UNITED

STATES

John Nolen, Landscape Architect, Cambridge, Mass.

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1

TYPICAL PARKS-NATIONAL, STATE, COUNTY AND CITY

OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND RESERVATIONS...

15

William Eleroy Curtis, Washington Correspondent of the

Chicago "Record Herald."

NATIONAL FORESTS AS RECREATION GROUNDS..

25

Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., United States Forest Service, Wash-

ington, D. C.

FORESTRY POLICY OF TYPICAL STATES-NEW YORK........

Hon. Austin Cary, Superintendent State Forests, Albany, N. Y.

32

FORESTRY POLICY OF TYPICAL STATES-PENNSYLVANIA

Hon. Joseph T. Rothrock, Member of State Forestry Reserva-

tion Commission, West Chester, Pa.

36

STATE FORESTS IN MICHIGAN..

44

Filibert Roth, Professor of Forestry, University of Michigan,

Ann Arbor, Mich.

PARK SYSTEM OF ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

Frederick W. Kelsey, Orange, N. J.

50

THE PARK SYSTEM OF HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.................

Walter G. Muirheid, Secretary Hudson County Park Commis-

sion and Board of Trade of Jersey City, N. J.

THE BOSTON METROPOLITAN PARK SYSTEM.

64

William B. De Las Casas, Chairman, Metropolitan Park Com-

mission, Boston, Mass.

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CITY PLANNING AND PHILADELPHIA PARKS..

71

Andrew Wright Crawford, Assistant City Solicitor; Secretary

The City Parks Association, Philadelphia.

THE PARK MOVEMENT IN MADISON, WISCONSIN..

81

Charles N. Brown, Secretary of the Madison Park and Pleasure

Drive Association.

RECREATION DEVELOPMENTS IN CHICAGO PARKS..

88

Graham Romeyn Taylor, of the "Survey" Staff; Secretary,

Playground Association of Chicago.

THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

PLAY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS

109

Howard S. Braucher, Secretary Playground Association of

America, New York City.

PUBLIC PROVISION AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR PLAYGROUNDS

Henry S. Curtis, Lecturer on Playgrounds, Worcester, Mass.

118

THE PLAYGROUND AS A SOCIAL CENTER.

129

Mrs. Amalie Hofer Jerome, Chicago.

EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF PUBLIC RECREATION FACILITIES.. 134

Charles Mulford Robinson, Author of "Modern Civic Art,"

Rochester, N. Y.

OUR RECREATION FACILITIES AND THE IMMIGRANT................

Victor Von Borosini, Hull House, Chicago.

141

THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY...

152

Otto T. Mallery, Member of the Philadelphia Public Play-

grounds Commission.

THE PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN AT HOME.

158

...

Beulah Kennard, President Pittsburgh Playground Association,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE UNUSED ASSETS OF OUR PUBLIC RECREATION FACILI-

TIES

Benjamin C. Marsh, New York City.

166