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Essex Greenspace (Suburbia (Critics of suburbia (Criticism from London…

- - - - Suburban Escapism
        
        Escape to the English Countryside
        
        Englishness
        
        Picturesque
        
        Capability Brown
        
        The English country house as a precedent for the middle and working class houses and gardens
        
        English suburban garden as a typical dominant landscape
        
        English obsession with land
        
        Land and gentry
        
        The Lawn
        
        Everyone can have their own little piece of countryside
        
        Ownership in Suburbia
        
        Bad taste
        
        Garden Gnomes
        
        Fanciful unqualified middle class interventions
        
        Domesticity
        
        Grayson Perry
        
        Pride in your home
        
        Chance to own a piece of land with a house and a garden
        
        Private Suburban Gardens: The success of suburbia
        
        Sense of belonging
        
        Place of the residents identity
        
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        Average people like to live in suburbia
        
        Design your own garden
        
        Empowerment of working classes as they could do what they wanted in the garden
        
        Could more greenspace be shared in suburbia
        
        House and [Shared] Garden
        
        Remove ownership of the garden
        
        House as a fixed monument, garden as a changing landscape
        
        Why do residents want/need their own private garden?
        
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        Gardens are easier to change than the house
        
        Essexodus
        
        Private garden provides an escape from the city and from suburbia
        
        Lack of greenspace in the city
        
        Even if one improved public greenspace in the city, urban dwellers would still desire their own garden
        
        Desire to have better wellbeing at home
        
        How can one escape when suburbia is itself part of the city?
    - - Scale of house to garden
        
        City park as a replacement to the private garden
        
        Suburban house with a front and back garden
        
        Country house in vast estate
        
        Intensifying existing developments densities into one block with one large garden
        
        Socialist palace with a shared garden
  - - - Fragile and sensitive rural communities are generally reactive to change
        
        New development in places with little going on can threaten existing residents
      - Introversion and inwardness
      - Does one need to participate in community?
        
        How many neighbours know each other by first name?
        
        Private garden as a provider for required greenspace
      - Public space as the meeting place
        
        Do we need public space?
      - Sense of belonging and ownership over place
      - Capitalism
      - Localism vs. multiculturalism
        
        The more people in a collective community, generally the more culture and variety.
        
        Cultural attachment to land
        
        English Obsession
        
        Diversity is a good thing
        
        Scale at which one approaches diversity i.e. international perspective or from one village to the next
    - - Political quantitative demand from the national government
      - Should we build new towns?
        
        If sprawl is damaging existing communities
        
        3 New 'garden developments' in North Essex
      - Variety of intensification, sprawl and new communities
        
        Upwards, outwards, downwards, over there, over here or not at all
      - Undesigned private sprawl vs planned controlled housing development
  - - - Middle class suburbs seen as fake
      - Detached tudorbethan style homes with front and back gardens
      - Snobbery
      - Middle class socialism
    - - Ian Nairn
      - Johnathan Meades
    - - Radical Housing act 1923
      - Government control vs private control
        
        Multiple uses for a single administrative usage class
  - - - The Good Life
  - - - Leave work at work
    - - Large energy consuming footprint
    - - Intercity greenway
      - How can this commute be more interesting and healthy?
- - - - More free time
      - Work/life balance
    - - Enough work for those who live in the commnuity
- - - - Suburban Garden as a fragmented habitat
        
        Variety of biodiversity
- - - - Old farm house, occupied with people who have little economic nor social ties to the rural place where they live
        
        Work in the city, and are can economically and socially relate more to the city
        
        The countryside lacks quantity of economic and social opportunity compared to the city
  - - - Working class people lived in the east
        
        Dockland and industrial workers in the Mouth of the Thames
      - Middle class people lived in the west
        
        Countryside rural landscapes of Surrey
      - County-wide spatial division of classes