Download or read book Playgrounds and Adventure Parks written by Joanne Mattern and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you hear the word "playground," what do you think of? Do you picture slides and swings? Do you think of climbing walls and tunnels? Or do you picture pirate ships and space to run? Over the years, playgrounds have changed in many ways. But they have always been a place where children can enjoy themselves and learn important lessons about safety and getting along with others. Discover how playgrounds came to be and how they have changed over the years.
Download or read book Let s All Go to the Park Playground written by Gregory L. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a wonderful rhyming children's story aboutspending the day at the biggest playground in town.The children cannot wait to get to the park andenjoy playing in the fresh air and sunshine.With so many things to do, they move fromone adventure to the next enjoying all thisplayground has to offer.What a great day for the whole family!
Download or read book Park Playgrounds and Boulevards of Seattle Washington written by Seattle (Wash.). Board of Park Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roxaboxen written by Alice McLerran and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marian called it Roxaboxen. (She always knew the name of everything.) There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill -- nothing but sand and rocks, some old wooden boxes, cactus and greasewood and thorny ocotillo -- but it was a special place: a sparkling world of jeweled homes, streets edged with the whitest stones, and two ice cream shops. Come with us there, where all you need to gallop fast and free is a long stick and a soaring imagination. In glowing desert hues, artist Barbara Cooney has caught the magic of Alice McLerran's treasured land of Roxaboxen -- a place that really was, and, once you've been there, always is.
Download or read book Future Parks written by Boston (Mass.). Park Department and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Future Parks Playgrounds and Parkways written by Boston (Mass.). Department of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public recreation a study of parks playgrounds and other outdoor recreation facilities written by Lee Franklin Hanmer and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Plan of a Park and Playground System for New London Conn written by John Nolen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parks Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central Park s Adventure Style Playgrounds written by Marie Warsh and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York’s Central Park, some of the playgrounds constructed as part of the midcentury experimental “playground revolution” still remain. In Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, Marie Warsh tells the engrossing history of these playscapes built in the 1960s and 1970s, exploring their connections to the art, recreational design, urbanism, grassroots movements, and child-development theories of the period. She further details the Central Park Conservancy’s efforts decades later to preserve and renew these playgrounds. So-called adventure-style playgrounds featured interconnected forms including pyramids, mounds, and steps, and basic materials such as water and sand, encouraging new levels of creativity and interaction. By the end of the 1970s, ten of Central Park’s twenty-two existing playgrounds—formerly paved, sterile, standard-equipment-filled lots dating to the 1930s—had been transformed according to the new design ideals. With time, deterioration prompted concerns about safety, and much of the equipment was removed. However, community interest led the Central Park Conservancy to update and preserve the playgrounds that remained in the park. Building on successful aspects of the playgrounds, designers incorporated new technologies, materials, and equipment that reflect contemporary ideas about children’s play and approaches to urban park management. They also developed strategies to better integrate them into the landscapes of the park. Today, Central Park’s adventure-style playgrounds represent significant works of renewed modern landscape architecture as well as models for new thinking about playground design.
Download or read book The Design of Childhood written by Alexandra Lange and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys, or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle. Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered--American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will change the way you view your children's world--and your own.
Download or read book A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham written by Olmsted Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturesque America Its Parks and Playgrounds written by John Francis Kane and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of the Co operative Work for Public Playgrounds by the Playgrounds Association the Park and Cemetery Commissioners and the Board of Education written by Grand Rapids (Mich.). Playgrounds Association and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Pitttsburgh Playgrounds Vacation Schools and Recreation Parks written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parks and Playgrounds Association of Salt Lake City Utah written by Parks and Playgrounds Association of Salt Lake City and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by Chicago. Special Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerning parks, playgrounds and bathing beaches.
