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

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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，以探索城市公园作为公共聚会场所的未来前景，无论是维多利亚时代还是今天。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（可能）如何在国际大都市中安全地居住并融合在一起。它通过探索它们是如何从它们的起源演变而来的这些公共场所的过去，现在和未来重要性之间的联系，这是维多利亚州城市中不同群体之间的社会混合空间的发展。它调查了对公园可能成为其社会可能性可能变成的公园的官方和公众期望，以及在维多利亚时代和当代时代，与未来的愿景相符的所需影响。通过这些方式，该项目与AHRC的“对未来的关心”研究主题及其核心野心联系在一起，并促进了“过去思考”的核心野心。该项目将历史分析与一项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的治理，法规和警务的人们的经验和观点。因此，它面临着在公共空间中管理社会混合的挑战，包括围绕多元文化城市的行为，社会障碍和其他焦虑的冲突的可能性。它还探讨了混合的结果可能有助于促进社会凝聚力及其潜在的文明影响。该项目将考虑公园的原始设计和理由如何与当代城市的需求以及如何适应不断变化的社会状况有关。这项研究将使我们能够“照顾城市公园的未来”，而不仅仅是了解其过去和现在的现在，而且还通过将理解转化为具体的政策建议，以实现其未来的治理。该项目将对未来城市城市公园的愿景，治理和可持续性进行重新解释和重新审视。在紧缩和地方当局支出的情况下，包括城市公园在内的非强制性公共服务，这是重新考虑这些公共场所的愿景和治理的适当时机。该研究基于西约克郡利兹的三个维多利亚时代公园。这些案例研究共同结合了各种各样的公园类型，从他们的社会理想和目的，用户和利益相关者的规模和社会形象以及公园生活体验的多样性到非正式社区公园的多样性。该项目贡献了将艺术和人文科学与社会科学联系起来的新独特的跨学科见解。该项目的发现将涉及有关城市未来的公共政策辩论，并吸引跨学科工作的学术受众，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。该项目将通过公开展览，利兹维多利亚公园的照片以及通过博客，Twitter提要和媒体简报来吸引公众观众。