A review of the early landscape preservationist movement and the creation, in 1926, of the CPRE. Speaker: Dr Francesca Church
FOLAR offers three different perspectives on the defence of open space from an era which saw the founding of the Institute of Landscape Architects.
In Talk 3, Dr Church will look at the early Preservationist movement and the creation, in 1926, of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. A key part of the Council's founding aims was amenity, an idea around which much of their practices, approaches and identity were based. Drawing on ideas that were important both to the Institute of Landscape Architects and the CPRE in the first half of the 20th century, the talk will explore two examples of such overlaps: education (in particular, CPRE exhibitions) and roadside planting.
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