Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445643014
The story of London’s favourite Royal Park and neighbouring Kensington Gardens, beautifully illustrated with paintings, prints, postcards and modern photographs.
Author : Paul Rabbitts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0747814716
London's royal parks are amongst its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station, the mere mention of Hyde or Regent's Park is enough to evoke the capital in all its glory for residents and tourists alike. They have a grand history – some having been royally-owned as far back as the Norman conquest, and others having been acquired by Henry VIII during the Reformation – and since being opened to the public during the eighteenth century have hosted some of London's great events, including the Great Exhibition and innumerable jubilees and celebrations. This book tells the story of all nine of the parks from the point when they were acquired by the monarchy until the present day, including the major historic moments and events with which they are associated.
Author : Malcolm Tait
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Parks
ISBN : 1845250141
Published in association with the Royal Parks Foundation, this lushly photographed tribute celebrates some of London’s--and the UK’s--most well-known and best-loved public spaces. From regal palaces and military monuments to art exhibitions and Speakers’ Corner, they provide reminders of Britain’s rich and varied past and present-day settings of great beauty. Each park receives it own chapter, complete with an at-a-glance timeline and breathtaking original photographs that reveal its own special character. The highlights include bluebell season in Bushy Park, the blooming rose garden in Hyde Park, an autumnal Thames view from Richmond, summer boating on the Serpentine, and much more.
Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408850516
Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's - a central London hospital of more than average decrepitude - does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man, beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the more successful and urbane Dr Zack Busner, consultant psychiatrist at Heath Hospital, and an originator of the once modish Quantity Theory of Insanity. Why is it that Busner seems so intent on fostering a professional relationship with Mukti? Is it his way of putting his junior colleague in his place? Or is Busner - as Mukti begins to suspect - a member of a sinister cabal? And what about the schizophrenic patients Busner refers to Mukti for his opinion, are they merely sick people, or in fact human weapons in a bizarre psychological duel?
Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393732797
Everything that landscape architects, architects, planners, civic officials, and citizen activists need to know about the critical urban role of public parks. Everything that anybody (whether they are citizen activists, or public officials, or professional landscape architects, architects, and planners) needs to know about the critical role public parks play in creating livable communities. Millions of dollars are being spent on restoring parks and creating new ones. Planner Alexander Garvin explains the rationales for their existence, the forms they take, their value, ways to pay for and govern them, and the ingredients that make successful parks, providing the first single definitive source of wisdom about them.
Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780099593829
'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, Guardian Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land-grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere along the way, the common folk trying to savour their single day of rest. In A Walk in the Park, Travis Elborough excavates the history of parks in all their colour and complexity. Loving, funny and impassioned, this is a timely celebration of a small wonder that - in an age of swingeing cuts - we should not take for granted.
Author : Ken Fieldhouse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135157898
The Urban Parks Programme, financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has sparked a new enthusiasm for the regeneration of Britain's parks. This unique reference book gives a valuable overview of all the elements of public park design. It emphasizes our parks' diversity and richness, and offers practical guidance as to their renovation and future care. It is essential reading for all those involved in the design, upkeep and regeneration of public parks.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1214 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Great Britain
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