English Urban Commons

The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-06918-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodgers, Christopher

Hammersley, Rachel

Zambelli, Alessandro

Cheatle, Emma

Clarke, John Wedgwood

Collins, Sarah

Dee, Olivia

O’Neill, Siobhan

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Urban Common as "Common" Space

Part I: The English Urban Common: Four Case Studies

2. Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne

3. Mousehold Heath, Norwich

4. Clifton and Durdham Downs, Bristol

5. Valley Gardens, Brighton

Part II: The Urban Common as a Contested Common Space

6. Land Use and the Culture of the Urban Commons: Continuity and Change

7. Conflict and the Contested Common

Part III: The Future of the Urban Common

8. “Urban” or “Urbane”? Models for Governance and Property Rights in the “Urban” Commons

9. Present Voices, Future Directions

10. Whispers of Better Things - Re-Imagining the Future of the “Urban” Common

Über Autor(innen)

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.