Page:John Nolen--New ideals in the planning of cities.djvu/81

CITIES. TOWNS AND VILLAGES needs a comprehensive, Well-distributed, well-developed system of parks and pleasure grounds. As yet, few American cities have been able to secure a well-balanced park system. Some cities have a liberal provision of public squares but few playgrounds and parks and no parkways. Others have large parks and boulevards but no playgrounds, while still others have parks and boulevards and playgrounds but few public squares. Many examples could be given of the unsatisfactory, incomplete, and one-sided way in which our so-