Behind the Privet Hedge

Behind the Privet Hedge

Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain

Gilson, Michael

Reaktion Books

05/2024

336

Dura

9781789148602

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: On the train to Roehampton with Edith Sitwell and DH Lawrence
Chapter One: 'A little Garden City'
Chapter Two: 'An industrial slave? Never'
Chapter Three: Trouble at the Whit Monday Garden Show
Chapter Four: The Birth of beautification
Chapter Five: Sudell the flower evangelist
Chapter Six: 'Taste is utterly debased'
Chapter Seven: 'There were little bridges, gnomes and things'
Chapter Eight: An unrivalled influence on new nation of gardeners
Chapter Nine: 'A new Britain must arise on better lines than the old'
Chapter Ten: The landscape architect struggles to make a mark
Chapter Eleven: 'An important and influential figure'
Chapter Twelve: The importance of play
Chapter Thirteen: Sudell urges us to invite Betty Uprichard into our garden
Chapter Fourteen: 'Sudell has been proved right'
References
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
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Gardening; Allotments; Suburbs; Suburbia; Garden city; Landscape architecture; Landscape gardening; Brutalism; Arts and Crafts; London County Council; London Gardens Guild; Guild Gardener; Institute of; Landscape Architects; Council for the Protection of Rural England; National Playing Fields Association; Selfridges Roof Garden; Ideal Home; Daily Herald; Kew Gardens; George Cadbury; Alfred Salter; Ada Salter; Joseph Fels; Patrick Abercrombie; Sylvia Crowe; Peter Youngman; Geoffrey Jellicoe; Tud