Why read People's Parks?

Book cover of People's Parks: The Design and Development of Victorian Parks in Britain

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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…

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1 author picked People's Parks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jan Woudstra

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I like the way this book not only traces national and international influences on the development of public parks in Britain but also how they affected design and management. It is all set out in a clear narrative, and at the time of its initial publication, it was a pioneering study.

The contents of this volume have now been incorporated in an even more comprehensive volume ameliorated and edited by Paul Rabbits, which completes the story to the present day. I like it as a standard go-to and as a source of reference for the study of public parks in…

From Jan's list on The best books on the history of public parks.