English Urban Commons

The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces

Christopher Rodgers, Rachel Hammersley, Alessandro Zambelli , Emma Cheatle

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English

Routledge
28 November 2023

Landscape art & architecture; Urban communities; The environment; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management

This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities.

This book's central argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and a rigorous engagement with present users can we devise new futures or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space has important policy implications for the delivery of nature conservation, recreational access and other land use priorities. The stakeholders in today’s urban commons, whether land users, policy makers or the public, are the inheritors of a complex cultural legacy and must negotiate diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying goal: a secure future for our urban commons. This book offers a unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commons, one that brings together original historical investigation, contemporary legal scholarship, extensive oral history research with user groups and research examining the imagined futures for the urban common in modern society. It explores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common. These are Town Moor in Newcastle, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Clifton and Durdham Downs in Bristol and Valley Gardens in Brighton. This book concludes by looking forward and considering new tools and methods of negotiation, inclusivity and creativity to inform the future of these case studies, and of urban commons more widely.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography, environmental studies and natural resource management.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

By: Christopher Rodgers, Rachel Hammersley, Alessandro Zambelli, Emma Cheatle, John Wedgwood Clarke
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 648g
ISBN: 9781032069180
ISBN 10: 103206918X
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Rodgers is an Emeritus Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. Rachel Hammersley is Professor of Intellectual History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. Alessandro Zambelli is a Reader in Architecture at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Emma Cheatle is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. John Clarke is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Academic Director for Arts and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. Sarah Collins is a Research Associate in History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. Olivia Dee was a Research Associate in Oral History at Newcastle University. She is now a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Siobhan O’Neill is an applied performance practitioner and a Research Fellow at Portsmouth School of Architecture, UK.