ABSTRACT
In the UK, the mid-1960s to the late 1990s was a turbulent period that witnessed structural transformations of British society. The period was characterised by the reorganisation of regional and local government, a decline of population in the major cities until the early 1990s and the structural economic change from manufacturing to services. The London Government Act of 1963 and the subsequent reorganisation of London’s government had a huge impact on the planning of new public green space. Under the Act, the London borough councils like Camden and Southwark were empowered as the town planning authorities of their boroughs, enabling them to plan and to create new green space in accordance with their own priorities rather than those of the Greater London Council – the new regional authority. Like town planning, the creation of new public green space changed profoundly between the late 1960s and 1990s.
