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Urban parks, POS and landscape architecture
The Skateboard park on London's South Bank is a specialised POS, created by and for its users - in defiance of the authorities. It involved no capital cost and nor is there any maintenance cost. Too...
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The turf maze as a game of love
A labyrinth has a single path to its centre and was a Christian pilgrimage symbol during the middle ages. A maze, with many blind alleys, puzzling events and difficult choices, became the setting for...
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The ‘urban squatters’ skateboard park on the South bank in London is one of my favourite examples of a highly specialised, and unofficial, public open space. Benighted planners have as unimaginative...
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English bowling: the history of the game of bowls
Bowling was the favourite game of the sixteenth century. It was played in great gardens, on smooth garden lawns in towns and on village greens. The game probably reached England from France, perhaps...
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