1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002998639707536

Titolo

Social complexity and the development of towns in Iberia : from the Copper age to the second century AD / edited by Barry Cunliffe and Simon Keay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : University press, published for The British Academy, 1995

ISBN

0197261574

Descrizione fisica

476 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 86

Altri autori (Persone)

Cunliffe, Barry

Keay, Simon James

Disciplina

936

Soggetti

Città - Spagna - Storia antica

Urbanesimo - Spagna - Preistoria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911011297603321

Autore

Rodgers Christopher

Titolo

English urban commons : The past, present and future of green spaces. / / Christopher Rodgers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2023

ISBN

9781000999976

1000999971

9781000999945

1000999947

9781003204558

1003204554

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management.

Classificazione

NAT000000NAT010000NAT011000

Soggetti

Nonfiction

Nature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities.  This book's central argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and a rigorous engagement with present users can we devise new futures or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space has important policy implications for the delivery of nature conservation, recreational access and other land use priorities. The stakeholders in today's urban commons, whether land users, policy makers or the public, are the inheritors of a complex cultural legacy and must negotiate diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying goal: a secure future for our urban commons. This book offers a unique and strongly



interdisciplinary study of urban commons, one that brings together original historical investigation, contemporary legal scholarship, extensive oral history research with user groups and research examining the imagined futures for the urban common in modern society. It explores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common. These are Town Moor in Newcastle, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Clifton and Durdham Downs in Bristol and Valley Gardens in Brighton. This book concludes by looking forward and considering new tools and methods of negotiation, inclusivity and creativity to inform the future of these case studies, and of urban commons more widely.  This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography, environmental studies and natural resource management.  The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.