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active role in enhancing open space and park provision to the point where in 1994, it
maintained 1200 ha of parkland and open space. This represented one-fifth of the total
area of the city, an extremely high level of provision by European and North American
standards.
Figure 5.3 shows the current distribution of urban parks in Leicester. By 2000, this had
risen to 3000 ha of public open space, comprising country parks, formal parks, gardens,
wetlands,
Figure 5.3:
Parks in Leicester,
c.1996
Source:
redrawn from Madge (1997:239)
allotments (for a discussion of allotments as a form of recreation, see Thorpe 1970;
Crouch 1989a, 1989b) and woodlands. This is complemented by the provision of gardens
with houses which perform an important recreational function (Halkett 1978) in the wider
leisure context of the home (Glyptis and Chambers 1982)
However
the dominant
