Recreational Areas

RECREATIONAL SPACES

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WHAT IS RECREATION AND

RECREATIONAL AREA?


UNDERSTANDING IT…

• Recreation -activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.

• WHERE PEOPLE meet, relax, and exchange ideas.

• environmentally sensitive area.

• Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun".

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UNDERSTANDING IT…

Ancient meaning-"refreshment or curing of a sick person“! Recreation space range from • Developed parks and recreation

facilities • Undeveloped hillsides and ravines • Major regional attractions • Small neighbourhood street- end

parks • Active recreation areas • Passive wooded areas which

separate conflicting land uses • Lush green areas • Wooden fishing piers • P-patches to zoos


WHY DO WE NEED IT?


WHY DO WE NEED IT?

• "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology.

• health and well-being of the public and for the preservation of wildlife

• Healthy lifestyles enhancement by facilitating improvements in physical fitness through exercise, and also by facilitating positive emotional, intellectual, and social experiences.

• Preserve environment and to maintain "naturalness“.

• Refreshes one’s mind and body activity that amuses or stimulates.

• Providing mental relief through spaces, environment and surroundings.


WHY DO WE NEED IT?

• Opportunities for health, wellbeing and quality lifestyle for the community

• Personal development, expression, creativity, individuality, social, physical and intellectual growth of children, youth and adults.

• Sense of community and community building through community interaction

• Beautification of the city, facility and amenity improvements

• Economic flow-ons to the community, business and tourism together with environmental benefits.


WHY DO WE NEED IT?

• Active and passive recreational opportunity.

• Direct health benefits.

• Protection for important critical areas and natural systems and for protection for wildlife diversity and habitat.

• Commercially significant resources and jobs

• Economic development.

• Natural features and spaces.

• Places for facilities.

• Opportunity to prevent youth crime through park and recreation programs that offer social support from adult leaders

• Historic preservation opportunities to remind people of what they once were, who they are, what they are, and where they are.


Types of recreation spaces

TYPES

Formal Informal Active passive Organised Unorganised Indoor outdoor

playing fields

sports grounds

Athletic tracks

Tennis courts

Parks

Linear

open

space

Amenity

space

within

housing

areas

Natural/inf

ormal

open

spaces

Ornamenta

l

gardens

Grassed

sitting

out areas

Recreation that

involves

playing

fields and team

participation

such

as baseball, soccer

Without fields

hiking,

Mountain

biking,

horseback

riding,

wildlife viewing, picnicking, etc.

Reading

Writing

Computer and

Video Games

Playing Cards

Internet Surfing:

Dance:

Music

Indoor Games

Hiking

Camping

Fishing

Skateboarding

Skydiving

Skiing

Swimming

Surfing


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INTERNATIONAL

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QUICK FACTS

LOCATION Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

TYPE URBAN PARK

AREA 24.5ACRE

CREATED 16 JULY 2004

VISITORS 4MILLION


MILLENIUM PARK

MILLENNIUM PARK, CHICAGO

• When Millennium Park opened on July 16, 2004, it transformed an industrial wasteland into Chicago’s showplace for cutting-edge art, architecture, landscape design, music and more.


MILLENNIUM PARK, CHICAGO

• Millennium Park is one of Chicago’s most extraordinary venues, and its popularity continues to climb among visitors and residents alike.

• Last summer, the Park welcomed 4.75 million people.


CLOUD GATE

• Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor.

• Kapoor's design was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline.


CROWN FOUNTAIN

• Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area.

• Designed by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa

• The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed between a pair of glass brick towers.

• Crown Fountain has been one of

the most controversial of all the

Millennium Park features.


BENIFITS

• Reduced stormwater runoff. • This eliminated the need for an onsite stormwater detention

facility. • Saves $17,800 in annual irrigation costs. • Attracts more than 27 species of birds, according to counts by

garden staff, along with butterflies and bees in the 2 acres of habitat with over 60% native Midwestern plant species.

• Sequesters over 55 tons of carbon annually in 46 new shade trees and the more than 1,600 trees that comprise the large shoulder hedge.

• Is a significant tourist destination within Millennium Park, which was visited by 4 million people.

• Contributes to Millennium Park’s $2.6 billion in projected visitor spending and $1.4 billion in projected residential development between 2005 and 2015.


VIEWS


PIAZZA SAN MARCO, VENICE




Location Venice, Italy

Building Type plaza, piazza, courtyard, urban open space

Construction System stone masonry

Climate mediterranean

Context urban

Style Italian Rennaisance

Commencement of construction

9th century



• Piazza San Marco is the lowest point in Venice • largest urban square in Venice • one of the largest in Europe • also known as St. Mark's square • primary gathering space in Venice • center for commerce, + architectural, and

historical icon • Building began in 9th century • in front of the original St. Mark's Basilica. • St. Mark's Square begins at the pier where

ships and gondolas are kept. • opens up into the Piazetta where two columns

represent St. Mark and St. Teodoro. On the right is the Doge's Palace. Next to the Doge's palace is St. Mark's Basilica. The piazetta opens up into a larger area of the square in front of the Basilica. The buildings lining this area of the square are known as the Procurata. Another main feature of the square is the Campanile, a 314-foot tower.

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