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New edition of classic book, profusely illustrated, charting the development of public access parks and what the future holds for these spaces.
List of contents
Introduction - Hazel Conway and Paul Rabbitts
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)Plants 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 in 21st century Britain
Appendix A Summary of main legislation promoting early park development
Appendix B Chronology of main municipal and public park developments between 1800 and 1885
Bibliography
About the authors
Notes
Acknowledgement of subscribers and supporters
Index
About the author
The late Hazel Conway was the author of the first edition of this book, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991. After an early career in technical journalism she moved into education in architectural and design history, becoming Principal Lecturer in the School of Art History at what is now De Montfort University, Leicester. As a freelance architectural historian she lectured and led study tours widely and was a consultant or office-holder for many bodies including the Garden History Society, Victorian Society, English Heritage and the National Heritage Lottery Fund
Summary
New edition of classic book, profusely illustrated, charting the development of public access parks and what the future holds for these spaces.
