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Public parks: cultural evolution, societal mirror.
If you're intrigued by how common spaces shape and reflect our cultural and social history, "A Walk in the Park" is a read that promises to deepen your appreciation for the green spaces we often take for granted. Travis Elborough offers a passionate and humorous journey through the evolution of parks, ensuring that your next stroll through the local park will be viewed with newfound reverence.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution
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ISBN: 9780099593829
Authors:
Travis Elborough
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2017-06-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.2
(rated by 25 readers)
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A fascinating, informative, revelatory book. Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest. In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that – in an age of swingeing cuts – we should not take for granted.
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Public parks: cultural evolution, societal mirror.
If you're intrigued by how common spaces shape and reflect our cultural and social history, "A Walk in the Park" is a read that promises to deepen your appreciation for the green spaces we often take for granted. Travis Elborough offers a passionate and humorous journey through the evolution of parks, ensuring that your next stroll through the local park will be viewed with newfound reverence.
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