More walking and cycling, in parks and green areas, to be encouraged

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2DD8J96File size:
44.2 MB (2 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3075 x 5020 px | 26 x 42.5 cm | 10.3 x 16.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
29 August 2020Location:
England, Great Britain , UKMore information:
. An on-location photograph from England, Great Britain , UK in 2020, showing the named subject as part of a wider social, commercial, cultural or physical setting rather than as an isolated object. The subject captured here is More walking and cycling, in parks and green areas, to be encouraged. A broader reading of the photograph includes period detail, passenger river service, blue-green infrastructure, working waterway, archival record, canal heritage, contemporary social history, community identity, riverfront regeneration, documentary photography, visual archive, regional identity, changing land use, and local character. For current editorial use, waterway maintenance and biodiversity provide additional context, especially through the role of passenger boats in broadening urban transport choices. The image fixes materials and architectural details within England, Great Britain , UK at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. Other useful contextual ideas include waterside leisure, waterside public realm, changing streetscape, waterfront cityscape, navigation corridor, local history, historical comparison, and place identity. The recorded references to cycling, parks, walking, encouraged, and green preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The wider setting at England, Great Britain , UK matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is waterway maintenance and the role of passenger boats in broadening urban transport choices without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK. The setting also helps illustrate waterside regeneration and the growing value of rivers and canals as transport, leisure and environmental corridors in a form that can be compared with future views of England, Great Britain , UK.