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- Title
The Nottingham Arboretum (1852): natural history, leisure and public culture in a Victorian regional centre.
- Authors
Elliott, Paul; Daniels, Stephen; Watkins, Charles
- Abstract
This article examines the development of the Nottingham Arboretum (1852), the centrepiece of one of the most ambitious schemes of urban enclosure and improvement in mid-Victorian Britain. It contends that the provision for parks and green spaces in the town was inspired by local naturalists and sanitary reformers as well as cultural emulation and civic rivalry with other urban centres such as Derby and Manchester. Analysis of the design and management of the Arboretum and green spaces and local controversies about funding and access reveal major local disagreements concerning uses of such spaces reflecting continued divisions in Victorian urban society beneath the public rhetorical and celebratory façade.
- Subjects
NOTTINGHAM (N.H.); DERBY (England); MANCHESTER (England); UNITED Kingdom; ARBORETUMS; CENTERPIECES; NATURALISTS; REFORMERS; SPACE; URBAN sociology
- Publication
Urban History, 2008, Vol 35, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926807005172