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A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People's Institution Condition:Like New but how solvable they areA fascinating, informative, revelatory book. Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as private hunting grounds through to their modern incarnation as public spaces of rest and relaxation, parks have been fought over by land grabbing monarchs, reforming Victorian industrialists, hippies, punks, and somewhere