Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design: continental solutions for British dilemmas

Clayden, Andrew; Woudstra, Jan

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“…Moreover, Clayden and Dixon (2007) claim that 'the traditional cemetery has been accused of no longer serving the needs of bereaved people'(p241); not adapting the changing belief patterns or being suitable maintained for the requirements of mourners. Issues of poor quality design, especially in the UK context are seen as furthering this notion of decline (Clayden & Woudstra, 2003), highlighting the importance for planning and city management to understand and address these issues. This then raises questions over the value of cemeteries, especially in a climate of perceived pressure on land for development.…”

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‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: cemeteries and stories of the city

McClymont

2016

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‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: cemeteries and stories of the city

McClymont

2016

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“…Daugavpils is situated in the south-eastern part of Latvia. The city is the second largest in Latvia with 102,496 inhabitants [6], situated on the banks of the river Daugava and covers an area of 72.48 km 2 . The city is situated at the cross-roads of important motorways and railways.…”

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“…The coexistence of nature and art, sometimes in an uneasy alliance, accounts for much of their character and makes them a unique historical, cultural and natural resource [1]. For that reason cemeteries are often an object for research for researchers of culture and historical heritage [1,2]. Taking into account the significant impact of human activities in cemeteries, the microclimatic, soil et al characteristics of site, which are essential for plants, specific flora is forming here.…”

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Analysis Of Invasive Flora In Cemetery Territories Of The City Of Daugavpils

Rutkovska

Pučka

Novicka

2015

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Alien species are reaching different areas, including also cemeteries. Inventory of invasive flora of cemeteries of the city of Daugavpils actually is the first such type of work to such level of detail on the Latvian scale. Field studies were conducted in 10 cemeteries of the city of Daugavpils. The obtained results are indicative of a comparatively high proportion of invasive plant species in the cemeteries. 49 invasive alien species were found. In the cemetery areas these are spreading mainly from greeneries, but there are also such taxa, which have accidentally reached the cemeteries. The most frequent plant in the Daugavpils cemeteries is Spiraea chamaedryfolia. Taking into account the trends of migration, sex-age structure of population, climate change, availability of exotic and new ornamental plants, it is most likely that the number of invasive species will grow in the future.

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“…There were also differences between countries. Continental Europe rationalised the re-use of graves in order that local urban burial grounds could be sustainable, and even today there are examples of new cemeteries being integrated into everyday space (Clayden and Woudstra, 2003). In the UK, however, once buried 'six foot under' in the out-of-town cemetery, the dead would remain there forever (Loudon, 1981) -a vision also embraced in North America.…”

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Disposal or dispersal? Environmentalism and final treatment of the British dead

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In current environmental discourse, disposal does not remove and destroy waste but rather transforms it into something useful or harmful and/or re-locates it. This article shows how this operates when the 'waste' comprises human remains, specifically how innovative 'dispersal' practices are now challenging the 'disposal' discourse of nineteenth-century burial and twentieth-century cremation which contained the dead within special death spaces separated from everyday environments for living. Since the 1990s, disposal practices have been supplemented by practices with an entirely different rationale. Instead of containing the dead in safe, out of the way places, new practices disperse human remains back into environments that sustain the living, whether this be via natural burial, new cremation practices or new technologies currently being developed, namely alkaline hydrolysis and freeze-drying. Promoters of all these innovations appeal to ecological usefulness, blurring the boundary between the living and the dead, thereby positioning the dead body as a gift to the living and/or to the planet. Thus, a new ecological mentality is increasingly framing the management of all the dead -not just those interred in natural burial grounds. In the light of this, we reconsider land use policy, and question death studies' use of the term 'disposal'.

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Some European approaches to twentieth-century cemetery design: continental solutions for British dilemmas

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: cemeteries and stories of the city

‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: cemeteries and stories of the city

Analysis Of Invasive Flora In Cemetery Territories Of The City Of Daugavpils

Disposal or dispersal? Environmentalism and final treatment of the British dead

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