Crikvenica's parks and public gardens were created on a planned basis, by filling in the coastline with land, with the aim of enriching the urban environment and overall tourist offering of the city by beautifying its landscape. In the original design of these parks and gardens, the city’s gardeners used numerous exotic and evergreen plants from the world’s Eumediterranean regions, still prevalent today, to highlight the impression of the warm South in the promotion of tourism. To a greater or lesser extent, from their emergence to this day, Crikvenica’s parks and public gardens face a common issue - the will and desire to refine the landscape image of the city with new gardens and parks. 

The deliberately created cityscape of the park belt along the coast is a recognizable part of Crikvenica’s identity and should, as such, be preserved as a significant landscape and a valuable cultural and historical heritage component of the city’s image.

The design of the newly renovated Stjepan Radić Square suggests a harmony between the strong need for terraces and the extremely valuable heritage of the tree-lined avenue. The unified terrace canopies create a linear feel and are tucked underneath the treetops, which minimizes their visual emphasis. Expanding on this idea, the promenade itself has received the same treatment. By filing in the gaps of the existing lines of trees on both sides of the promenade, the terrace canopies and parked cars are folded in within the cross-section of the promenade, shifting the accent of the impression back to the trees themselves.