ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 3月17日 23時45分

The English Garden, Munich, Germany, 2015 (opened 1792) taken by @simoncroberts. The photograph is one of several I have featured in the April 2016 issue of the magazine alongside the story 'How Urban Parks Are Bringing Nature Closer To Home' by Ken Otterbourg.

Until the mid 1600s urban parks were private; the exclusive domain of wealthy families and royalty. By the mid 1800s urban parks were starting to be seen as a way to serve the public and latter as a remedy to social ills caused by the Industrial Revolution and overcrowding in lower income neighbourhoods.

Parks in the Romantic Period such as the English Garden (1850 – 1890) were typically large green spaces located at the edge of a city that offered the ideal of the pastoral landscape. These “Pleasure Grounds” allowed for both active and passive – or contemplative—recreation and became playgrounds of the rich given they were too far away for the working class.

Today urban parks are increasingly being created from reclaimed lands in and around cities. Viewed as essential to the wellbeing of residents and as an effective way to promote economic development, they represent a new imaginative era of experimentation. #urbanparks

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