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Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape

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  • Mark Bhatti
  • Andrew Church
  • Amanda Claremont

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This paper uses narrative accounts of private gardens in Britain from the Mass-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives offer privileged access to a site of intense engagement and carefully guarded privacy, yet with varying levels of attachment. The garden is a space well described in Britain in its public form but less well known as a private, everyday landscape. In this way a cultural landscape study becomes a contemporary critical geography of an ordinary space.

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  • Mark Bhatti & Andrew Church & Amanda Claremont, 2014. "Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(1), pages 40-52, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:39:y:2014:i:1:p:40-52
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.759918
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    1. Lee, Cha-Hee, 2020. "Understanding rural landscape for better resident-led management: Residents’ perceptions on rural landscape as everyday landscapes," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    2. Jorge Cruz-Cárdenas & Nora H. Oleas, 2018. "Private Urban Garden Satisfaction and Its Determinants in Quito, Ecuador," SAGE Open, , vol. 8(1), pages 21582440187, March.
    3. Beata J. Gawryszewska & Izabela Myszka & Michał Banaszek & Axel Schwerk, 2023. "Periurban Streetscape—Vernacular Front Gardens and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of Warsaw, Poland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-21, January.

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