GEORGIAN TOWN GARDENS.

From: History Today | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Greening urban landscapes is nothing new, says Joyce Ellis, the Georgians were Greens too.

THE PROCESS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT in Georgian England produced a landscape dominated by bricks and mortar as the built-up area of towns across the country first became more densely settled and then began to encroach upon the surrounding countryside. However, the attention paid to the great landscape gardens of the aristocracy has obscured the extent to which towns shared in what has been called the `garden revolution' of the period. The heroic approach adopted at Blenheim or Stowe was ...

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