| Unit name | A Social History of Public Spaces since 1800 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ARCHM0117 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Mowl |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Anthropology and Archaeology |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This is an optional unit offered in Teaching Block 2. This unit will explore the development of public spaces over the last two hundred years and place them within their social and historical context. The unit will begin by looking at the creation of garden cemeteries and finish with the 2004 CABE brochure, The Value of Public Space. Other areas to be discussed to include the rise in public parks during the Victorian period, the garden city movement, the use of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll as designers for the Commonwealth War Grave Commission post-World War I, the change in ideas about land ownership, also as a result of World War I, and the subsequent National Parks movement, the development of countryside parks, new parks such as the Thames Barrier Park, and recent park movements including the restoration of nineteenth-century parks as a result of Heritage Lottery Funding.
