Abstract
This chapter traces the evolution of an Arcadian myth from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. It begins in Port Sunlight, a model industrial village in Merseyside built in the 1900s, which evokes a dream of rural community enabled by enlightened paternalism. But that dream began as an aristocratic retreat from court life in Elizabethan England, at the Earl of Pembroke’s estate at Wilton where Philip Sydney wrote his poem Arcadia (1588). The chapter moves to the eighteenth-century English landscaped park, taking Rousham, Oxfordshire as an example; and the Garden City movement of the 1900s, then a grass-roots pastoralism in working-class rambling, and in rural and coastal settlements (plotlands).
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Miles, M. (2021). From Arcadia to Plotlands. In: Paradoxical Urbanism. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6341-6_2
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