parklife

Up in the boughs, a literate London Tarzan. Down to earth, a woman on the wait. All part of parklife, give or take the ups and downs.

1971, William Samsom, “A Stroll in the Park”, in Réalités, numbers 242-247, page 65

From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".

2001, Sven Lütticken, “Parklife”, in New Left Review

In Stockholm parklife, certain behaviours are framed as bad, unacceptable, or pathological by institutions such as the police and the social services.

2012 October 2, Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley, “Friction zones and emergent publics in Stockholm parklife”, in OpenDemocracy

The news won’t come as a surprise to everyone, considering the number of Twitter users who gamely shouted “Parklife!” at him recently, after Brand’s convoluted way of speaking was compared to the wordy verses of Blur’s song of the same name.

2014 November 13, Ella Alexander, “Russell Brand officially a negative influence on politics, according to this”, in The Independent

As an avid reader, but one who gave up academia years ago, parsing meaning from the dense descriptors occasionally left me ready to shout Parklife. But it’s also a book which says to the reader: make of this what you will. There are no polemics here, no dumbings down.

2019 December 5, Laura Waddell, “Scotland’s ‘Unmakars’ can take you to some unexpected places”, in The Scotsman

Guy Debord was undoubtedly a brilliant polemic thinker, whose essays included clever-sounding sentences like: "The introduction of alterations such as more or less arbitrarily transposing maps of two different regions, can contribute to clarifying certain wanderings that express not subordination to randomness but complete insubordination to habitual influences.*" * Parklife!

2025, Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters), →ISBN, page 58