Playground Design
Articles
Child Playgrounds by Sherri Arnold
No More Cookie Cutter Parks by Jay Beckwith
Why Our Playgrounds are Boring to Todays Wired Child by Jay Beckwith
(or Get the Exact Version - In Adobe Acrobat format.)Newspaper Articles
A Playground With a Difference: It's Designed for One and for All
When Child's Play is Too Simple
Citizen's Lend Hearts and Hands To Create Playgrounds For Kids
Playground Equipment/Designers
Playground Equipment Manufacturers/Designers and their Web Sites
Safety Standards
Consumer Product Safety Commission's "Handbook for Public Playground Safety".
The opinions above are the authors only. We welcome an ongoing discussion about what constitutes good playground design. Please email us at mail@bpfp.org with articles or website links on playground design. We may include them here.
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