Show CHAPTER V CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING PUBLIC RECREATION In endeavoring to set up criteria by which to judge public recreation in communities in the State of Utah two sets of standards which were definite in their recommendations were studied ST schedule for the appraisal of community recreation had been formulated by the capable executives of the NationA al Recreation Association They were assisted in this study by various city planning committees throughout the This schedule proved rather involved and United States complicated principally because its standards were concerned with evaluating recreation in communities of 50000 population and over There were only two cities in the State of Utah with a population within that category In view of this fact only parts of the set of standards of the National Recreation Association could be used in the present situation Orland W Noble2 made a survey of public in Kern County California The standards set recreation up by Noble National Recreation Association "Schedule for the Appraisal of Community Recreation" Bulletin No 167 New York City New York 2 Orland W Noble "A Survey of Recreation in Kern of SouthCounty" (unpublished Master's thesis University ern California Los Angeles California 1936) |