Document Type
Book
Files
Download Full Text (13.0 MB)
Download Front Pages, Credits, Preface and Acknowledgements & Table of Contents (138 KB)
Download Introduction & Summary of Important Issues and Recommendations (327 KB)
Download Children’s Play and Child Play Facilities (2.3 MB)
Download Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Program Master Planning (696 KB)
Download Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Physical Master Planning Guidelines (1.7 MB)
Download Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Physical Planning Decisions (598 KB)
Download Design Patterns and Recommendations: Site Organizing Principles (1.7 MB)
Download Design Patterns and Recommendations: Design of Activity Spaces (2.3 MB)
Download Design Patterns and Recommendations: General Design of Play Spaces (2.5 MB)
Download Design Recommendations: Site Details (794 KB)
Publication Date
1979
Abstract
Design guide for the planning, programming and design of children's outdoor play environments. Includes 75 patterns for a range of children's play areas imbedded in a tiered park system and in conjunction with recreation, community and educational facilities. Based on current research information. Received an Award for Applied Research in 1980 from Progressive Architecture. Reprinted 1983, with new photographs in 1985, 1988, and in 1991. Highly illustrated.
ISBN
0938744070
Recommended Citation
Cohen, Uriel; Hill, Ann B.; Lane, Carolg G.; McGinty, Tim; and Moore, Gary T., "Recommendations for Child Play Areas" (1979). Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research Books. 34.
https://dc.uwm.edu/caupr_mono/34
Publisher
Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
City
Milwaukee, WI
Front Pages, Credits, Preface and Acknowledgements & Table of Contents
recommendations_cohen_2.pdf (327 kB)
Introduction & Summary of Important Issues and Recommendations
recommendations_cohen_3.pdf (2309 kB)
Children’s Play and Child Play Facilities
recommendations_cohen_4.pdf (696 kB)
Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Program Master Planning
recommendations_cohen_5.pdf (1766 kB)
Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Physical Master Planning Guidelines
recommendations_cohen_6.pdf (598 kB)
Planning Criteria and Recommendations: Physical Planning Decisions
recommendations_cohen_7.pdf (1704 kB)
Design Patterns and Recommendations: Site Organizing Principles
recommendations_cohen_8.pdf (2335 kB)
Design Patterns and Recommendations: Design of Activity Spaces
recommendations_cohen_9.pdf (2526 kB)
Design Patterns and Recommendations: General Design of Play Spaces
recommendations_cohen_10.pdf (794 kB)
Design Recommendations: Site Details
Comments
Monograph is digitally reproduced in its entirety. Pagination gaps represent blank pages in the print version.