ABSTRACT
The official historian of the British national parks, Gordon Cherry, wrote of how those parks were ‘no isolated subject matter’, but had a prominent place in the 20th-century development of land use and environmental planning (Cherry, 1975, p1). Previous chapters have explored such an assertion, as it applied to the world’s first national parks in that initial century of global park making, the decades between 1850 and 1950. What does their establishment reveal of land-use policies generally, attitudes toward statutory land-use planning, and what became more expansively called environmental planning?
