The future prospects of urban parks: The life, times and social order of Victorian public parks as places of social mixing

城市公园的未来前景：作为社会融合场所的维多利亚公园的生活、时代和社会秩序

• 批准号: AH/N001788/2
• 负责人: Anna Barker
• 金额: $ 15.7万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN001788%2F2
• 关键词: future; prospects; urban; parks; life

This project brings together insights from history, criminology and urban studies to explore the future prospects of city parks as public meeting places, in both the Victorian period and the present day. The aim of the project is to generate a novel understanding of the future social significance and role of public parks and how social groups (might) live together and commingle safely in cosmopolitan cities. It makes connections between the past, the present and the future importance of these public spaces by exploring how they have evolved over time from their origins as spaces of social mixing between diverse groups in Victorian cities. It investigates official and public expectations of what parks might become in terms of their social possibilities and their desired effects aligned with visions of the future, both in the Victorian and contemporary eras. In these ways, the project connects with and advances the AHRC 'Care for the Future' research theme and its central ambition of 'thinking forward through the past'. The project combines historical analysis with a new contemporary study to explore the experiences and views of people that used and use Victorian parks in terms of their governance, regulation and policing. It therefore engages with the challenges of managing social mixing in public space, including the possibilities for conflict around behaviour, social disorder, and anxieties of otherness in the multi-cultural city. It also explores the outcomes commingling may facilitate in terms of promoting social cohesion and its potential civilising effects. The project will consider how the public park's original design and rationale remains relevant to the needs of the contemporary city and how it has adapted to changing social conditions. This research will allow us to 'care for the future' of the urban public park, not just by understanding its past and its present, but by translating that understanding into concrete policy proposals for its future governance. The project will provide a reinterpretation and reinvigoration of the vision, governance and sustainability of urban parks in cities of the future. In the context of austerity and local authority spending cuts to non-compulsory public services, including city parks, this is an opportune time to rethink the vision and governance of these public spaces. The research is based on three Victorian public parks in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Together, these case studies combine a diversity of park types in terms of their social ideals and purposes, the size and social profile of users and stakeholders, and the diversity of experiences of park life from places of grand show and ceremony to informal community parks. The project contributes new and unique inter-disciplinary insights connecting the arts and humanities with the social sciences. The project findings will feed into public policy debates about the future of cities and engage academic audiences working across disciplines, particularly in social and urban history, law, criminology, sociology, urban policy and cultural studies. The project will engage public audiences through a public exhibition, a free-to-access digital collection of photographs of Victorian parks in Leeds, and via blogs, twitter feeds, and media briefings.

该项目汇集了历史，犯罪学和城市研究的见解，以探索维多利亚时期和当今城市公园作为公共聚会场所的未来前景。该项目的目的是对公共公园的未来社会意义和作用以及社会群体如何在国际大都市中安全地生活和融合产生新的理解。它使这些公共空间的过去，现在和未来的重要性之间的联系，通过探索他们如何随着时间的推移从他们的起源，在维多利亚城市的不同群体之间的社会混合的空间演变。它调查了官方和公众对公园在维多利亚时代和当代的社会可能性及其与未来愿景相一致的预期效果的期望。通过这些方式，该项目与AHRC“关心未来”的研究主题及其“通过过去向前思考”的中心目标相联系并推动其发展。该项目将历史分析与新的当代研究相结合，以探索使用和使用维多利亚公园的人们在治理，监管和警务方面的经验和观点。因此，它参与管理公共空间中的社会混合的挑战，包括在多文化城市中围绕行为，社会秩序和他者焦虑的冲突的可能性。它还探讨了混合在促进社会凝聚力及其潜在的文明影响方面可能促进的结果。该项目将考虑公园的原始设计和基本原理如何与当代城市的需求保持相关性，以及它如何适应不断变化的社会条件。这项研究将使我们能够“关心未来”的城市公园，不仅通过了解它的过去和现在，但通过将这种理解转化为具体的政策建议，为未来的治理。该项目将重新诠释和振兴未来城市公园的愿景、治理和可持续性。在财政紧缩和地方政府削减包括城市公园在内的非强制性公共服务支出的背景下，这是重新思考这些公共空间的愿景和治理的适当时机。这项研究是基于三个维多利亚公园在利兹，西约克郡。总之，这些联合收割机结合了公园类型的多样性，包括其社会理想和目的、使用者和利益相关者的规模和社会形象，以及公园生活的多样性，从盛大的表演和仪式场所到非正式的社区公园。该项目提供了新的和独特的跨学科的见解，将艺术和人文与社会科学联系起来。该项目的研究结果将纳入关于城市未来的公共政策辩论，并吸引跨学科的学术受众，特别是在社会和城市历史，法律，犯罪学，社会学，城市政策和文化研究方面。该项目将通过一个公共展览，一个免费访问的数字收集的照片维多利亚公园在利兹，并通过博客，推特饲料，和媒体简报吸引公众观众。

项目成果

Park futures: Excavating images of tomorrow's urban green spaces

公园的未来：挖掘未来城市绿地的形象

• DOI: 10.1177/0042098019875405
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Urban Studies
• 影响因子: 4.7
• 作者: Barker A

Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: forging 'openness to otherness' in segmenting cities

城市公园中的日常遭遇：在分割城市中打造“对他人的开放”

• DOI: 10.1017/s1744552319000387
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: International Journal of Law in Context
• 影响因子: 0.8
• 作者: Barker A

Report - The Leeds Parks Survey 2016: Full Report

报告 - 2016 年利兹公园调查：完整报告

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Barker, A.

Spaces Apart: Public Parks and the Differentiation of Space in Leeds, 1850-1914

空间分离：利兹的公园和空间分化，1850-1914 年

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Urban History
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Booth N

Report - The Future Prospects of Urban Public Parks: Findings - Informing Change

报告 - 城市公园的未来前景：调查结果 - 通报变革

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Barker, A.