On public parks in connexion with large towns, with a suggestion for a park in Belfast

Abstract

The importance of public parks and other open spaces in large towns is such as scarcely to admit of debate, yet the consideration of some of the advantages resulting from them cannot fail to be a matter of interest. They have a great effect in improving the atmosphere of the districts around them, by allowing of the change of air so much needed where many human habitations are closely packed together. Thus the beneficial influence of the parks of London extends to multitudes even of those who seldom use them as places for recreation and exercise.