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  1. Series page
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Preface
    1. Notes
  8. Introduction
    1. Playgrounds today
    2. Playing in the past
    3. Playground histories
    4. Childhood and the urban environment
    5. Overview
    6. Notes
  9. 1. Finding space for play: ‘playgrounds for poor children in populous places’
    1. Education and exercise in the mid-nineteenth century
    2. Childhood and urban anxieties in the late nineteenth century
    3. Notes
  10. 2. Competing playground visions: ‘a distinctly civilizing influence that gives much health and happiness’
    1. ‘Properly equipped playgrounds’ in the early twentieth century
    2. Charles Wicksteed, philanthropy and commerce
    3. Excitement and freedom in Wicksteed Park
    4. Notes
  11. 3. Playgrounds for the people: ‘a magnetic force to draw children away from the dangers and excitements of the streets’
    1. Playing fields and playgrounds in interwar Britain
    2. Safety and supervision
    3. Problems in the playground
    4. Designing the perfect play experience
    5. Notes
  12. 4. Orthodoxy and adventure: ‘playgrounds are often as bleak as barrack squares and just as boring’
    1. Orthodoxy consolidated: postwar planners and the playground
    2. Marjory Allen and the challenge of adventure
    3. Beyond the bombsite
    4. Reimagining the playground: artists and architects
    5. Notes
  13. 5. Playground scuffles: ‘it’s ours whatever they say’
    1. The power of play
    2. Campaigning and working for play
    3. Danger and decay
    4. Playground monsters
    5. Notes
  14. Conclusion
  15. References
    1. Primary Sources
    2. Secondary Sources
  16. Index

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