| Description |
1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Contents |
Front cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- A Word from Parks Professionals, Politicians and Parks Organisations -- Introduction -- 1. Public Parks and Municipal Parks -- 2. The Need for Parks -- 3. Pioneering Parks Development -- 4. The Park Movement -- 5. Design and Designers -- 6. Lodges, Bandstands and the Cultivation of Virtue -- 7. Local Pride and Patriotism -- 8. Planting and Park Maintenance -- 9. Permitted Pastimes -- 10. Recreation Grounds, Parks and the Urban Environment -- 11. Public Parks, 1885-1914 -- 12. Later Municipal Park Designers |
|
13. Garden Cities and the New Towns Movement -- 14. Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation in Public Parks in the Inter-war Years -- 15. Parks Management -- a Changing Perspective -- 16. Decline, Revival and Renewal -- the Role of Parks into 21st-century Britain -- Appendices -- Summary of main legislation promoting early park development -- Chronology of main municipal and public park developments between 1800 and 1885 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subscription List -- Index |
| Summary |
New edition of classic book, profusely illustrated, charting the development of public access parks and what the future holds for these spaces |
| Subject |
Parks -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
|
|
Parks -- Great Britain -- Design and construction
|
|
Architecture, Victorian -- Great Britain
|
|
City and town life -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
|
|
Architecture, Victorian
|
|
City and town life
|
|
Parks
|
|
Parks -- Design and construction
|
|
Great Britain
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Rabbitts, Paul
|
| ISBN |
9781739822996 |
|
1739822994 |
|
