Histories of Public Parks in Manchester and Salford and Their Role in Cultural Policies for Everyday Participation

Gilmore, Abigail; Doyle, Patrick

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55027-9_6

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“…The geographical focus of the research was Greater Manchester (GM) UK, a city region of 2.8 million inhabitants spanning a large range of socio-demographic and ecological (i.e. urban to rural) contexts with a long history of acknowledging the role of GI in public health (Gilmore and Doyle 2019). The research involved experts (academics) from all three of the major universities in the city region (University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Salford University) and practitioners (members of Group Two) likewise came from GM organisations (representing both the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and other Local Authorities within GM) with extensive local knowledge.…”

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Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice

Dennis

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Anderson

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Ageing and urbanisation pose significant challenges for public health and urban planning. Ageing populations are at particular risk from hazards arising from urbanisation processes, some of which are in turn exacerbated by climate change. One approach for mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation on ageing populations is the leveraging of the beneficial effects of urban green infrastructure as a public health intervention in the planning process. We assessed the potential of available theoretical frameworks to provide the context for such leverage. This involved active engagement with academics and practitioners specialising in ageing, green infrastructure and health and well-being through a knowledge-brokering approach. We concluded that an integrated and comprehensive framework on the socio-cultural-ecological determinants of health is lacking. To address this, we present a set of principles for overcoming challenges to knowledge integration when working at the intersection of green infrastructure, ageing, health and well-being. Our findings—and the co-production process used to generate them—have wider significance for trans-disciplinary research into the benefits of the natural environment to human health and well-being as well as other complex and interconnected topics associated with global grand challenges.

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Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice

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Anderson

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“…Public cultural institutions were established 'to resolve problematic class behaviours', with Henry Cole advocating in 1884 that 'museums should go into competition with the Gin Palaces' (cited in Bennett 2000Bennett , 1414, as 'the rapt contemplation of a Raphael' would keep wayward husbands from the taproom (contemporary magazine [1858], cited in Bennett 2000Bennett , 1414. Even the public park emerged for those who migrated to cities during the Industrial Revolution (Gilmore and Doyle 2019). In other words, the park as we now know it was another Victorian strategy for the improvement-and regulation-of urban populations.…”

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Well-being, Values, Culture and Society

Oman

2021

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This chapter looks at the relationship between culture and well-being. It introduces how the ‘the culture-well-being relationship’ is invoked in advocacy for culture’s role in social policy, resting on a philosophical lineage. It demonstrates how this relationship has been theorised, naturalised and popularised to become ‘common sense’ for some, while its use in policy has seen it institutionalised, operationalised, metricised and monetised. This chapter reviews this process through a brief survey of cultural policy, asking who decides which—or whose—culture is good for society from Victorian to contemporary cultural value debates. This chapter presents the increasing presence of well-being data in this story, as well as the role of cultural measures in national well-being data from the UK to Bhutan.

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“…Setting the field boundaries: the park, the shelter and the museum Municipal public parks have been designated spaces for community life from the second half of the 1800s, when they were first established in Manchester to offset the impact of industrialisation and improve the physical and moral health of urban population (Doyle, 2013;Lang, 2018) through the formation and regulation of cultural pursuits and class boundaries (Gilmore & Doyle, 2019;O'Reilly, 2019). A carefully designed space full of features for multiple active uses, characteristic of later Victorian park-making, Cheetham Park was formally opened on 26 September 1885 by the Mayor, Alderman J.J. Harwood.…”

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Talking, Walking and Making in Cheetham Park

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2020

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This article presents a case study of an inter-disciplinary project in a small Victorian public park in Manchester. The project was a collaboration between Manchester Jewish Museum and the University of Manchester, which aimed to foster participation and a sense of ownership amongst local residents, park users and museum visitors, and create a sustainable social infrastructure to look after this particular public space. Academic researchers and an Artist-in-Residence worked together using a range of participatory methods we summarise as ‘talking, walking and making’. Here we reflect critically through the framework of ‘the commons’ to identify how and why the project failed to produce its intended outcomes. We focus on one object, the park's shelter; and one event, the park’s 130th anniversary, as ‘boundary objects’ (Star & Griesemer, 1989) to reveal the dissonant world-views of the project’s participants, critically assess its participatory methods, and offer reflexivity from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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Histories of Public Parks in Manchester and Salford and Their Role in Cultural Policies for Everyday Participation

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice

Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice

Well-being, Values, Culture and Society

Talking, Walking and Making in Cheetham Park

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