The Lungs of the City
Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8102532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Jones (0000-0002-4787-6830, University of Kent, corresponding author), Karen R Jones (School of History University of Kent Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NX, UK) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-58 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-3407 • E-ISSN: 1752-7023 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/096734018x15137949591837 |
| OpenAlex | W2739421920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 5 |
New machinery, factory systems and a burgeoning population made the nineteenth century the era of the city. It also represented the coming of age of the city park. Across Europe and North America, elite spaces were opened to public access and new areas dedicated as 'parks for the people.' This paper offers a brief tour of green spaces across three iconic metropolitan sites - London, Paris and New York - to consider how the axioms of recreation, industrial modernity and public health operated in specific urban contexts. Of particular note is the fact that park planners embraced an holistic vision, often articulated via bodily metaphors, that incorporated both social and environmental aspects: thus behind apparently nostalgic visions for a pre-industrial bucolic greenery lay irrefutably modern approaches to urban planning that presaged twenty and twenty-first century holistic experiments in garden cities and 'living homes.' Also central to this study is the idea of the park as a liminal space and an eminently readable landscape: an evolving site of translation, negotiation and transformation that highlights the fertile ground of cross-disciplinary study and the benefits of a complex ecological history that involves close examination of place, action and imagery
Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Civil engineering · Geography · Landscape design · Metaphor · Metropolitan area · Modernity · Political science · Population · Public space · Recreation · Sociology · Vision · American Environmental and Regional History · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Art and Culture Studies
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |