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Designed for Play
Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010
Jon WinderAuthor
An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, Designed for Play demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and reshape the urban landscape to improve childhood outcomes.
Background image: Children Playing at the Foundlings Site Playing Fields by Marshall, 1936 © Daily Herald Archive / Science Museum Group
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Image Image Figure 4.2. Sketch Suggestions of Improvised Equipment for Children’s Play by R.B. Gooch, National Playing Fields Association, 1956
Image Figure 2.4. Large swings, c.1920
Image Figure 2.2. Gymnasia for parks, Bayliss Jones and Bayliss Ltd, 1912
Image Figure 4.4. Experimental play equipment by LCC Architects Department, 1959
Image Figure 2.3. Wooden slides, c.1920
Image Figure 5.2. Swinging in a derelict playground, Newcastle, by Nick Hedges, 1971
Image Figure 1.3. Little Dorrit’s playground by H. Seppings Wright in the Illustrated London News, 8 February 1902, p. 208
Image Figure 5.1. Open space with children’s play area, Basildon, by S. Lambert, 1967
Image Figure 4.3. Children’s playground, Churchill Gardens estate by J. Maltby, 1963
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- isbn9781914477683
- issn3049-5105
- publisherUniversity of London
- publisher placeLondon
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- rights© Jon Winder 2024
- rights holderJon Winder
- rights territoryWorld
- series titleNew Historical Perspectives
- doi