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44. Gutheim,
Worthy of the Nation,
168-173; Stephen Child, “A Park Needs of
Washington Awaken Interest of Public,”
Parks and Recreation
6 (1923), May-June,
403-412; Charles W. Eliot 2nd,“Planning Washington and Its Environs,”
City Plan-
ning
3 (1927), July, 177-193.
45. The Boston landscape architect Arthur Shurtleff described the changing
concerns of park users and designers in
Future Parks, Playgrounds, and Parkways
(Boston Park Department, 1925). The National Conference on Outdoor
Recreation published several volumes outlining the need for comprehensive
recreational opportunities, including
Proceedings of the National Conference on
Outdoor Recreation, May 22-24, 1924
(Government Printing Office, 1924) and
A Report Epitomizing the Results of Major Fact-Finding Surveys and Projects Which
Have Been Undertaken Under the Auspices of the National Conference on Outdoor
Recreation
(Government Printing Office, 1928). Among the most influential
contemporary expressions of these changing concerns was
Public Recreation: A
Study of Parks, Playgrounds, and Outdoor Recreation Facilities. Regional Survey Vol. 5
(New York: Committee on the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs,
1928). Galen Cranz summarized these transformations in
The Politics of Park
Design:A History of Urban Parks in America
(MIT Press, 1989). For more on “The
New Deal and The New Play,” see Phoebe Cutler,
The Public Landscape of the
New Deal
(Yale University Press, 1985), 8-28. For details of recreational devel-
opments in Washington during this period, see Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks of the National Capital,
Annual Report of the Director of Public Build-
ings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1926-1932
(Government Printing
Office, 1926-1933).
46. For broader accounts of the automobile's impact on urban parks and the evo-
lution of the motor parkway, see Gilmore Clarke,“The Parkway Idea,” in
The High-
way and the Landscape,
ed. W. Snow (Rutgers University Press, 1959), 32-55;
Newton,
Design on the Land,
596-619; Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev,
Man-Made America: Chaos or Control?
(Yale University Press, 1963), 159-167; Clay
McShane,
Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City
(Columbia
University Press, 1994), 31-40, 203-228; Davis, “Mount Vernon Memorial High-
way and the Evolution of the American Parkway.”
47. Davis, “Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway,” passim.
48. “Linking the Parks,”
Washington Post,
July 23, 1934; “Road to Link The
Potomac, Rock Creek Parks,”
Washington Post,
June 11, 1935; “New Rock Creek
Road Link to Open Artery,”
Washington Evening Star,
October 24, 1935; “New
Parkway Here to Rank with Finest,”
Washington Evening Star,
April 17, 1936.
49. Isabelle Gates,“What Could Be a Finer Tribute to Washington's Memory?”
Amer-
ican Motorist—District of Columbia Edition
( June 1930), 67, 107. On the development
