Jul 05 2011 12:22 am

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The realization of metropolitan and regional park system around The US

By 1900 Boston led the way in realizing a vast regional park system. Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago gave a further boost to the metropolitan and regional park concept by proposing a park system extending some thirty miles from the center of the city and a lakeside park system of over twenty miles that would establish the unique character of the Chicago lakefront. And in the 1920s, in New York, the Regional Plan of New York and Environs and the New York State Parks Council and the Long Island
State Parks Commission, led by Robert Moses, developed a model system of metropolitan parks and parkways that would shape the lives and recreational habits of millions of people for decades
to come.

Regional park systems were also flourishing in the West. Perhaps foremost was the establishment of California’s East Bay Regional Park District in 1934, based on Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.’s “California State Park Survey.” The East Bay Park District was the first American regional park district with consolidated authority and independent taxing powers. It established a national model for administrative and regional park quality.

 

Building on these successes, communities all across America developed metropolitan and regional park systems that preserved unique natural areas and provided needed recreational facilities.

 

 

 

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  1. yeungyu.tsui on 06 Jul 2011 at 11:20 pm #

    I agree with cheokhong said above.The East Bay Park District found in 1934. it provide a nature area and the needed recreational facilities. people can enjoy camping boating and other activities and it set a model for administrative and regional park quality.