It is London's good fortune to have several parks near its centre, green oases in the middle of the city. This book explores two of the best loved of these parks, Regent's Park and Primrose Hill. Regent's Park was created in the early nineteenth century as part of the most interesting exercise in town planning in British history. As well as the elegant teraces devised by architect John Nash, it includes grassland, woodland, wetland, gardens, a lake, a canal, the Open Air Theatre - and London Zoo. Primrose Hill, with its superb views over London, was added to Regent's Park, as a separate but linked park, in 1842. The two parks are home to a remarkable range of animal and bird life, and are used and loved by millions of Londoners and visitors to London. In this book Martin Sheppard traces the history of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill and describes their architecture and their life. Sandra Lousada's superb photographs reveal the parks in every aspect.
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Profiling such a small location amid the London morass must have been quite challenging, but Lousada's images rise to the occasion. Known for her theatre and portrait photography, the images here show a resplendent, lively and ever-changing nook of the capital. Amateur Photographer If it has ever struck you that we, the public, are lucky to have Regent's Park, Sheppard's attractive book will confirm and reinforce that feeling. Ham & High His elegant prose does warm and knowledgeable justice to an urbane landscape still elegantly civilised in parts, one packed too with fascinating incident and stories/storeys of both kinds. West End Extra What really brings the book to life - and why the editors here at Mapping London are excited about it - is that every page has a lovely hand-sketched colour map showing the towpath along the canal and the surrounding scenery. The extract above shows the page where the canal passes along the western edge of Victoria Park in east London. The maps are both attractive to look at and clear to interpret. Locks, bridges and road links are are shown, with great attention to detail. Mapping London
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Höhe: 267 mm
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978-0-7112-2598-5 (9780711225985)
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Sandra Lousada is famous for her theatre photographs, her photographs of children, and her iconic portraits of such luminaries as Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney and Julie Christie. Her photographs have illustrated many books, including, most recently, London's Parks and Gardens, by Jill Billington, and Hampstead Heath, by Deborah Wolton and David McDowall (both Frances Lincoln). Her book Public Faces Private Places: Portraits of Artists 1956-2008 will be published in September 2009, and will be accompanied by a major exhibition at the National Theatre.
Introduction 1. A Royal Park 2. John Nash 3. Terraces 4. Villas 5. Parkland 6. Gardens 7. The Zoo 8. Primrose Hill 9. Pleasures Index
