Commons, Forests and Footpaths
Author: George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13:
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Property and Politics 1870-1914
Author: Avner Offer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-09-24
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0521224144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870-1914.
Storied Ground
Author: Paul Readman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1108424732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
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Author: Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 080209046X
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Space, Power and the Commons
Author: Samuel Kirwan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-23
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317553640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross the globe, political movements opposing privatisation, enclosures, and other spatial controls are coalescing towards the idea of the ‘commons’. As a result, struggles over the commons and common life are now coming to the forefront of both political activism and scholarly enquiry. This book advances academic debates concerning the spatialities of the commons and draws out the diverse materialities, temporalities, and experiences of practices of commoning. Part one, "Materialising the Commons" focuses on the performance of new geographical imaginations in spatial and material practices of commoning. Part two, "Spaces of Commoning", explores the importance of the turn from ‘commons’ to ‘commoning’, bringing together chapters focusing on the "doing" of commons, and how spaces, materials, bodies and abstract flows are intertwined in these complex and excessive processes. Part three, "An Expanded Commons", explores the broader registers and spaces in which the concept of the commons is at stake and highlights how and where the commons can open new areas of action and research. Part four, "The Capture of the Commons", questions the particular interdependence of ‘the commons’ and ‘enclosure’ assumed within commons literature framed by the concept of neoliberalism. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways in which ideas of the commons are being conceptualised and enacted both throughout the social sciences and in practical action, this book foregrounds the commons as an arena for political thought and sets an agenda for future research.
Art and Protest
Author: Charlotte Yeldham
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-04-03
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 3111025454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing official protection of natural environments for public benefit in Fontainebleau Forest in France (1861) and in Yosemite (1864) and Yellowstone (1872) in the USA, the New Forest Act of 1877 marked the first major instance in Britain. Art and artists were involved in this achievement to a greater extent than in all preceding cases. For the first time, and within an ecocritical framework, this study examines the role played by art during the previous anti-enclosure campaign – highlighting both the hitherto-unacknowledged extent of German influence in terms of the original artistic initiative and of German artists’ participation in the cause, as well as the significance of connections between landscape art of the day and priorities of the early Open Spaces movement. Ecocriticism in art history With works by the German and British artists George Bouverie Goddard, Wilhelm Kümpel, Alfred Pizzi Newton, Wilhelm Trautschold, Edmund George Warren
The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries
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Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe European City and Green Space
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1351890352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent years have seen sustained public debate and controversy over the 'greening' of European cities, associated with the environmental movement, pressures of urban redevelopment, and the promotional strategies of cities competing in a global market. But the European debate over urban green space has a long history dating back to Victorian concerns for the 'green lungs' of the city to combat the health and social problems caused by rapid population and industrial growth. This book explores the multiplicity of green space developments in the modern city - ranging over parks and commons, garden suburbs and the cities in the park, allotment gardens, green belts and national urban parks. It is concerned not only with the different types of green space but the many influences shaping their evolution, from international planning ideas, to the rise of modern-day sport and leisure, and the effects of the transport revolution. No less vital in this story is the interaction of the many actors involved in the often fractious political process of creating green spaces - architects and planners, politicians, developers and other businessmen, NGOs and local residents. This volume is particularly concerned with contexts: how international planning ideas are transmitted and adapted in different European cities; how the construction of green space is affected by local power structures and relationships; and how ordinary people perceive and use green spaces, quite often at variance with official designs. The European City and Green Space looks at these and other issues through the prism of four metropoles - London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg. All represent different types of North European city, yet each has experienced distinctive economic, political and cultural trajectories, whilst also facing powerful challenges and problems of similar kinds with regard to green space. This volume examines how each has responded to them and what patterns emerge.
Common Land in Britain
Author: Angus J L Winchester
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1783277432
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Wild
Author: Solveig Bøe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1350099457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to the term 'wild' to consider the aesthetic experience of nature, focusing on the untamed, the boundless, the unwieldy, or the unpredictable; in other words, aspects of nature that are mediated by culture. This book maps out the wide range of ways in which we experience the wildness of nature aesthetically, relating both to immediate experience as well as to experience mediated through cultural expression. A variety of subjects are relevant in this context, including aesthetics, art history, theology, human geography, film studies, and architecture. A theme that is pursued throughout the book is the wild in connection with ecology and its experience of nature as both a constructive and destructive force.
