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Parks and Gardens

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Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment

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THIS CHAPTER IS sub-divided into three sections concerned with public parks, children’s playgrounds, and allotment gardens.

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  1. Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK

    Ivor H. Seeley B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.I.C.S., C.Eng., F.I.Mun.E. (Head of Department of Surveying)

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Seeley, I.H. (1973). Parks and Gardens. In: Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01815-4_6

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