The Lungs of the City

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London park with ducks by a lakeside
​ Image by Cristian Bortes on Wikimedia Commons

Park Notes

The Lungs of the City’: Green Space, Public Health and Bodily Metaphor in the Landscape of Urban Park History Environment & History, 24/1 (Feb 2018), pp. 39-59

This article looks at the ‘lungs of the city’ metaphor and the role of parks in the public health movements of the 19th century in London, New York and Paris.

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2018/00000024/00000001/art00005

A Short Blog post introducing the ‘Lungs of the City’ project:

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/history/2019/11/27/lungs-for-the-city/