ABSTRACT
Parks date to about 1000 bc, when the Sumerians built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as an assembly place and hunting grounds. In the United States during the colonial era, planners provided for open space. William Penn included five open squares in his design of Philadelphia in 1682; James Oglethorpe designated twenty-three squares in Savannah, Georgia; the Boston Common was bought and dedicated for park use in 1728; and Pierre Charles L’Enfant provided for park space in his design of Washington, DC, in 1791.
