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People's Parks

People's Parks

Conway, Hazel
Rabbitts, Paul

Hardcover

Series: John Hudson - List of Books

Travel GeneralGeneral World HistoryArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1739822986
ISBN13: 9781739822989
Publisher: John Hudson Publishing
Published: Nov 14 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 3.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.40 Depth: 10.30
Language: English
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.

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