The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces: A Community History Project

诺丁汉历史绿地的社交世界：社区历史项目

• 批准号: AH/K007718/1
• 负责人: John Beckett
• 金额: $ 9.84万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK007718%2F1
• 关键词: Social; World; Nottingham; Historic; Green

The main economic and societal impacts will be in the Nottingham region, largely realised through the vehicle of the partner organisations. The research will help forge complementary regional partnerships between the two universities and with Nottingham City Council and local heritage organisations who, with the wider community, will be the main non-academic beneficiaries of the project.For the partner organisations it will facilitate hands-on experience of research, engagement with a rich field of knowledge, and create opportunities for knowledge exchange. Participants in a Gateway to Nature Framework project conference (which encourages involvement in green and nature-related activities for vulnerable members of the community) held in Nottingham in October 2012, stated that they were partly inspired by the historic ethos of Nottingham's green spaces. The project aims to capitalise on such community-led initiatives to raise awareness of the historic importance of green spaces and their surrounding communities, challenging both local people and visitors to the city to value and utilise them even more for recreation, education, research and scholarship. Through the development of networks and exchange of experiences it hopes to ameliorate tensions between preservation, heritage and community demands such as those demonstrated recently when one group concerned with preserving the Forest's heritage clashed with community groups wanting improved sports facilities.The City Council faces many challenges managing and preserving Nottingham's historic green spaces which are used by diverse groups with different needs and expectations. It will benefit from the project in two ways. First, the project will build on and expand existing relationships with community groups and improve communication. Second, as part of a programme to promote understanding of Nottingham's historic green spaces, and inspire interest in their varied history, the project will provide a context for understanding the diverse landscapes including the planting schemes, the original buildings and the other structures, and how they are used. In a period of financial austerity and local government budget reductions, it will provide a useful source of information and inspiration for the work of gardeners, rangers and other parks staff, who are active in the friends groups, and aid the landscape-gardening, planting and management of Nottingham green spaces.For local communities and local cultural consciousness, the project will enhance the sense of belonging and well-being implied in connecting the city with its green spaces, and provide the urban community with a cultural resource. For the wider community, the project will contribute to the regeneration ambitions of Nottingham City Council which rely on the active participation of local and regional leaders in the public and private sector. Overtures to these leaders to discuss the results of the project will secure lasting impact because of their resulting contribution to city planning and policy making. As well as providing the benefits of new knowledge for the wider community, it will create potential for economic benefit in the region through tourism. By placing Nottingham's Victorian parks, gardens, cemeteries and public walks into the context of the city's industrial and urban history, the intention is to build on and link to the city's wider regeneration strategy, which links directly to its tourism and heritage strategy, including regeneration of the Castle Quarter; Professor Beckett is a member of the working group preparing a major HLF bid for this area.In these various ways, the project will have an impact among conservationists, heritage and museum specialists, local history enthusiasts, and people interested in the wider aspects of landscape design, conservation and history, not least some of the thousands of contemporary users of historic green spaces.

主要的经济和社会影响将在诺丁汉地区，主要通过合作伙伴组织的载体实现。这项研究将有助于在两所大学、诺丁汉市议会和当地遗产组织之间建立互补的区域伙伴关系，这些组织和更广泛的社区将成为该项目的主要非学术受益者。对于合作组织来说，它将促进研究的实践经验，参与丰富的知识领域，并创造知识交流的机会。2012年10月在诺丁汉举行的自然之门框架项目会议（鼓励弱势群体参与绿色和自然相关活动）的参与者表示，他们的部分灵感来自诺丁汉绿色空间的历史气质。该项目旨在利用这些社区主导的倡议，提高人们对绿色空间及其周边社区的历史重要性的认识，挑战当地居民和城市游客，让他们更加重视和利用绿色空间，用于娱乐、教育、研究和学术。通过网络的发展和经验的交流，它希望改善保护、遗产和社区需求之间的紧张关系，比如最近一个关注保护森林遗产的团体与希望改善体育设施的社区团体发生冲突。市议会面临着管理和保护诺丁汉历史绿色空间的许多挑战，这些空间被不同需求和期望的不同群体使用。它将从两个方面受益于该项目。首先，该项目将建立并扩大与社区团体的现有关系，并改善沟通。其次，作为促进对诺丁汉历史绿地的了解，并激发人们对其多样历史的兴趣的项目的一部分，该项目将提供一个理解各种景观的背景，包括种植方案、原始建筑和其他结构，以及它们的使用方式。在财政紧缩和地方政府预算削减的时期，它将为活跃在朋友群中的园丁、护林员和其他公园工作人员的工作提供有用的信息和灵感来源，并帮助诺丁汉绿地的景观园艺、种植和管理。对于当地社区和当地文化意识而言，该项目将增强城市与绿地连接所隐含的归属感和幸福感，并为城市社区提供文化资源。对于更广泛的社区，该项目将有助于诺丁汉市议会的重建雄心，这依赖于当地和地区领导人在公共和私营部门的积极参与。向这些领导人提出建议，讨论项目的成果，将确保产生持久的影响，因为他们对城市规划和政策制定做出了贡献。除了为更广泛的社区提供新知识的好处外，它还将通过旅游业为该地区创造潜在的经济效益。通过将诺丁汉的维多利亚时代公园、花园、墓地和公共走道置于城市工业和城市历史的背景中，目的是建立并连接城市更广泛的再生战略，这直接联系到其旅游和遗产战略，包括城堡区的再生；贝克特教授是为该地区准备大型高铁竞标的工作组成员之一。通过这些不同的方式，该项目将对环保人士、遗产和博物馆专家、当地历史爱好者以及对景观设计、保护和历史更广泛方面感兴趣的人产生影响，尤其是成千上万的历史绿地的当代用户。

项目成果

The transformation of green space in Old and New Nottingham

新旧诺丁汉绿地改造

• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Transactions of the Thoroton Society
• 作者: Mills, J

British Urban Trees: a Social and Cultural History

英国城市树木：社会文化史

• 作者: Elliott P

Victorian Gardening, horticulture and arboriculture in the Midlands: John Frederick Wood (1806-65) of Nottingham and the Midland Florist and Suburban Horticulturalist

中部地区的维多利亚时代园艺、园艺和树木栽培：诺丁汉的约翰·弗雷德里克·伍德（John Frederick Wood，1806-65 年）以及中部地区花店和郊区园艺师

• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Transactions of the Thoroton Society
• 作者: Elliott P

People's Parks: Victorian Urban Public Parks in the West Midlands

人民公园：西米德兰兹维多利亚时代的城市公园

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: History West Midlands
• 作者: Elliott P

Reflections on a co-production project: the story of the Social World of Nottingham's Green Spaces project

对联合制作项目的思考：诺丁汉绿色空间项目的社交世界的故事

• 期刊: The Local Historian
• 作者: Coope J