was also to be adopted in England for middle-class residential developments and suburbs. One of the first was Regent's Park, London, designed in the architect and John Nash(1752-1835), surrounded by terraces of houses disguiscd by facades to give each block the appearance of a great palace and so placed that their windows had views similar to those seen fron upper-class country-houses(15.2) A landscape park was, however, thought to be nore than just visually pleasing; it partook of that spiritually regenerative influence which nature Was believed to exert. In the USA, the first intended for the public was Mlount Auburn outside Boston, designed in u 831 primarily as a cemetery. The creation of parks for working-class areas began in Germany and England in the 1840s, a decade of poverty and political turbulence in the industrial