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Sunday, after the Reds game, we rode our bikes over to Sawyer Point Park and the kids played a bit at the 1,000 hands playground. The shade...

A post about a new playground in Paris was forwarded to me by a reader. I really like custom designed playgrounds, especially when it'...

I'm sitting her in Ziegler park with a dozen happy children running around playing tag. The air is cool and the sky is deep blue. Th...

...Kids at McDonald's playgrounds follow the restricted options offered by a post and platform ensemble: wait, go up, go across, go down...

Seen at a park in District of Columbia last week. Simple, yet kids seemed attracted to it:  

WP playground preliminary design from 3CDC website: My wishlist for this yet undefined playground: 1. Climbing Hill with slide down 2. R...

  Early supper tonight, and then out to play on the playground for an hour or so. IT was a beautiful evening, cool and deep blue sky. Lots...

  And the best kid, rock-climbing, right behind:   View back to overlook:  

These playing children demonstrate the latent possibilities of urban renewal in general. With the aid of a little concrete, wood, aluminum t...

  We brought the tetherball setup out into the park Sunday, and it attracted a constant stream of players, even a few adults. Not sure what ...

...Car-dependent places design each area for one single land use. They also seem to design for single life stages, too. A large yard may m...

There is a lot of stuff named after this guy. Anyone know who he was and how he made his fortune?   ANSWER: Otto Armleder was a 19th centu...

The decline of public play is a theme of this blog. This author touched on this when trying to figure out why he disliked the plastic play ...

Sunday the weather finally broke warm, and on the way home from canvassing, we stopped at this peaceful playground in Northside. The play e...

  Who designs a swing with a four foot chain? Not much is accomplished on such a swing other than a kind of dizzyness. Then also, they are...

We stopped at the Lunken Airport playgorund, which is a very good playground. There are usually lots of kids, it is fenced, has lots of mat...

  There was a movement 100 years ago to get children off the street and on to "safe" play structures like this.

While researching another topic, I was surprised to see that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) which regulates playground equip...

One of the things that gave me the best childhood memories, was playing in the woods near our house. We cut trails, built forts and made tre...

Good thing we got that rubberized play surface so kids don't bruise themselves: