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The Uses and Abuses of Public Space: Urban Governance, Social Ordering and Resistance, A venham P ark, P reston, c. 1850–1901
Author(s) -
Loxham Angela
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12018
Subject(s) - appropriation , corporate governance , scholarship , public space , elite , space (punctuation) , sociology , political science , order (exchange) , public administration , industrialisation , social order , resistance (ecology) , political economy , environmental ethics , law , politics , management , epistemology , economics , engineering , architectural engineering , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , finance , biology
This article contributes to scholarship on liberal governance during the nineteenth century through the much‐neglected area of the public park. Using Preston as a case study, it seeks to answer why parks were considered necessary, but also to argue for the need to understand micro‐level issues that determined their precise formation and governance. In line with this, attention is paid to how space was orchestrated to encourage self‐regulation, and the elite appropriation of this space to bolster the fragile social order that industrialisation had engendered in the town. Finally attention is paid to the outcome of this, and the ways in which people could enjoy the park, without internalising the intended norms.