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