WHAT THIS MANUAL DOES ?
Small parks play crucially important roles in metropolitan areas, but their designs rarely reflect all that is now known about people, ecology, and landscapes. This lack of connection to current knowledge is not surprising, as this information is spread across dozens of journals, reported in technical jargon, and has sometimes contradictory prescriptions. There is also a deep division between two key areas of research-human factors research (on human interactions with open space) and ecological research. This is not merely a matter of specialty or emphasis but reflective of a larger world view.