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People’s Parks
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People's Parks - The Design and Development of Public Parks in
Britain' identifies the principal national and international
influences on park development from the nineteenth century until
the present, including their historical and cultural significance.
Municipal parks made an important contribution to our urban
environment, and they developed within a social, economic and
political context which affected people's attitudes to recreation -
what became known as 'rational recreation'. The promoters of parks
wanted to encourage education and particular forms of recreation,
and parks reflected this in their design, buildings, statues,
bandstands and planting. This book is a thorough update and
re-evaluation on Hazel Conway's influential book, published in
1991, adding and evaluating an extra 100 years of history, through
the Victorian era, to the war years, the impact of the Garden
Cities movement, and the great decline of parks from the 1970s
onwards. The impact of the Heritage Lottery Fund's urban parks
programme from the 1990s is covered, along with that of austerity
and the Covid pandemic. The book concludes by evaluating the role
of parks today and potential for the future.
General
Imprint: |
John Hudson Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Hazel Conway
• Paul Rabbitts
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Dimensions: |
210 x 260mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-73982-298-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-73982-298-6 |
Barcode: |
9781739822989 |
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