CULTIVATION Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Spade cultivation Gardens Rigs and fields Forestry and other first ploughing Allotments, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh Urban countryside takes several forms. In this case, allotments and a public park in the former grounds of a country house. Scottish towns and cities are built at higher densities than their English counterparts – characteristically housing was tenements. Allotments were intended to give tenement dwellers a chance to grow some of their own food. The urban, recreational users for whom this park was intended can now move freely deep into the surrounding countryside with their own transport. They can also re-colonise the homes vacated by former estate employees and vanished farm workers. Resource pack   1     2     3     4     5