How a municipal parks system formed in London following Confederation provides insight into the struggle that existed between public recreation and those who championed its provision, and political leaders concerned with the expense of providing public parks. Victoria, Queen’s and Springbank Parks, all formed in the 1870s, provided Londoners with public spaces to recreate. Each park came into being for different reasons and served specific recreation and leisure roles. Not until the turn of the century, however, did growing pressure from external and internal social reform movements such as national playground initiatives lead London to organize their parks into a coherent system through the formalization of a recreation bureaucracy.De la l...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
The local ballpark was an important community gathering place during the first half of the twentieth...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
In early 20th century Canada, middle-class social reformers campaigned for urban parks and supervise...
While the Victorian ideal of the public park is well understood, we know less of how local governors...
The 19th Century Victorian writer, John Ruskin, made the observation, "The measure of any great civi...
The 19th Century Victorian writer, John Ruskin, made the observation, "The measure of any great civi...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia was a ra...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
The local ballpark was an important community gathering place during the first half of the twentieth...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
In early 20th century Canada, middle-class social reformers campaigned for urban parks and supervise...
While the Victorian ideal of the public park is well understood, we know less of how local governors...
The 19th Century Victorian writer, John Ruskin, made the observation, "The measure of any great civi...
The 19th Century Victorian writer, John Ruskin, made the observation, "The measure of any great civi...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
During the final decades of the nineteenth century, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia was a ra...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
This study examines the development of popular entertainment in the municipal public parks of a vari...
Rapid urbanization in early Victorian Britain induced citizens to envision new kinds of public space...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
This paper argues that the Edwardian municipal park represents a significant transition from the hig...
The local ballpark was an important community gathering place during the first half of the twentieth...