Abstract

The UK has a long history of providing and managing urban parks. The formal park and garden, developed as a morally improving ‘place apart’ in the city, can inform people’s idea of what a park is. This paper aims to explore the legacy of this conceptualisation of the park through an extensive review of literature and policy documents. This paper examines prevailing discourses by locating them more accurately within its political, economic and social context of the times. The paper also examines why, despite being described as ‘treasured assets’ by national government today, UK urban parks continue to be undervalued and taken for granted? Why does the lamenting of the fate of UK urban parks sector persist in the twenty-first century? To answer this question, the paper will focus on the formal urban park by applying the analytical framework of place-keeping as a conceptualisation of long-term green space management and stewardship.

中文翻译：

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城市公园再次陷入危机？英国公园政治、经济和社会背景的历史考察

摘要

英国在提供和管理城市公园方面有着悠久的历史。正式的公园和花园，作为城市中道德改善的“隔离场所”而发展起来，可以让人们了解什么是公园。本文旨在通过对文献和政策文件的广泛回顾来探索公园概念化的遗产。本文通过更准确地将流行话语置于其时代的政治、经济和社会背景中来审视它们。该论文还探讨了为什么尽管英国城市公园如今被国家政府描述为“珍贵资产”，但其价值仍然被低估并被视为理所当然？为什么对英国城市公园部门命运的哀叹在二十一世纪依然存在？为了回答这个问题，本文将通过应用场所保持的分析框架作为长期绿地管理和管理的概念来关注正式的城市公园。