This type of park with irregular lakes, gentle hillocks and paths meandering among clumps of trees, 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 1812 by the architect and town - planner John Nash (1752-1835), surrounded by terraces of house disguised by facades to give each block the appearance of a great palace and so placed that their windows had views similar to those seen from upper-class country-houses