TY - JOUR T1 - The Received View of Play and the Subculture of Infants JF - Landscape Journal SP - 149 LP - 160 DO - 10.3368/lj.16.2.149 VL - 16 IS - 2 AU - Susan Herrington Y1 - 1997/09/21 UR - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/16/2/149.abstract N2 - The outdoor play apparatuses that punctuate the yards of schools and day care centers, neighborhood tot lots, and community playgrounds are cultural artifacts habitually placed in the American landscape. They can pacify neighborhood groups when an adjacent development is proposed, they can “improve” a residual urban lot, they can raise accreditation scores for a child-care facility, and they seem to occupy some level of satisfaction in the adult mind about going outdoors or going to the “park.” But what do these outdoorplay apparatuses really offer children, particularly young children who are increasingly placed in corporate, commercial, and institutional settings? This study attempts to throw open the doors of play to landscape by examining the received view and promulgation of common play artifacts, and it presents the Infant Garden as an alternative way of conceptualizing play outdoors for young children. ER -