This book identifies the main national and international influences on the development of municipal and other public parks in nineteenth-century Britain, relating these influences to the design and use of parks and clarifying the significance of the achievement. Municipal parks made an important contribution to the urban environment, developing within a social, economic and political context which profoundly affected people's attitudes towards recreation. The promoters of parks wanted them to facilitate education and entertainment, and they reflected this in their design, buildings, statues, bandstands and planting. Towards the end of the century, disused inner-city burial grounds were transformed into the open space much needed for public recreation. There are detailed sections on park development, design and use, a summary of main relevant legislation, and a chronological gazetteer of the earliest municipal and other public parks, with details of their size and how they were created and the name of their designer. The book is fully illustrated with contemporary plans, photographs and lithographs.
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'Hazel Conway knows everything about Victorian municipal parks.' Economist
'... excellent study.' Country Life
'... the publication of People's Parks provides the most well researched and thoroughly documented book on the subject to date.' Garden History
'On the sociological and institutional aspects of the topic (municipal parks), Conway's book is clearly the best researched and most informative to date.' The Garden
'... excellent study.' Country Life
'... the publication of People's Parks provides the most well researched and thoroughly documented book on the subject to date.' Garden History
'On the sociological and institutional aspects of the topic (municipal parks), Conway's book is clearly the best researched and most informative to date.' The Garden
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Hazel Conway identifies the main national and international influences on park development in nineteenth-century Britain and relates them to the design and use of municipal and other public parks.
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