The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

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PENN STUDIES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE John Dixon Hunt, Series Editor This series is dedicated to the study and promotion of a wide variety of approaches to landscape architecture, with special emphasis on connections between theory and practice. It includes monographs on key topics in history and theory, descriptions of projects by both established and rising designers, translations of major foreignlanguage texts, anthologies of theoretical and historical writings on classic issues, and critical writing by members of the profession of landscape architecture. The series was the recipient of the Award of Honor in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006. Copyright 䉷 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The pleasure garden : from Vauxhall to Coney Island / edited by Jonathan Conlin. p. cm. (Penn studies in landscape architecture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4438-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Amusement parks—England—History. 2. Amusement parks—United States—History. 3. Resorts—England—History. 4. Resorts—United States—History. 5. Amusements—England—History. 6. Amusements—United States—History. I. Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture GV1853.4.G7 P54 2013 635.90942 2012014198 Frontispiece: Vauxhall Gardens (c. 1859). Lambeth Borough Archives. Landmark 1259. ...