The Manchester/Salford Parks: Their design and development

• Autores: Hazel Conway
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 5, Nº 3, 1985, págs. 221-260
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The identification of the need for parks took place gradually during the first half of the nineteenth century. Although a specific date marking the development of this concern cannot be cited, the date of official recognition of the problem is readily available. In 1833 the Select Committee on Public Walks (SCPW) presented its Report to Parliament. The aim of this Report was to establish what open spaces were available for public use in the major towns and to recommend specific local and national action. The focus on major towns related to a number of complex factors: the growth of population; the expansion of towns; the enclosure of commons and wasteland; factors, in other words, which affected the physical availability of open space. But parks are also associated with recreation and another area in which a need was identified concerned attitudes towards recreation, particularly that of working people.