Anticipating municipal parks : London to Adelaide to Garden City
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2013
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Johnson, D.
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The essays in this book trace the philosophical beginnings of what became an international municipal-park movement to create parklands for the well-being and recreation of city people. Adelaide's parklands are central to this movement, their development set during the social, political and intellectual uncertainties of early nineteenth-century philosophical developments and emigration debates in England. In this book, Johnson contests the accepted understanding that Colonel William Light was the sole architect of the city of Adelaide, revealing the often-ignored role of Light's Deputy Surveyor, George Strickland Kingston. He also investigates the role and influence of John Arthur Roebuck and hohn Claudius Loudon on the course of town-planning theory, and the political and theoretical influences leading to the economic and social ideas of Ebenezer Howard and his Garden City.
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Copyright 2013 Donald Leslie Johnson