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Greening the City - Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century (Hardcover)
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Greening the City - Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century (Hardcover)
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The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and
walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the
city discovering its vegetable nature? Exploring the place of
nature in the French urban environment from the seventeenth to the
twenty-first century, this volume, translated from the original
French by Moya Jones, reveals, rather than a monolithic narrative,
a continuous, but fluctuating, interlacing of paving stones and
plants. The focus of this liberally-illustrated book is not just
gardens and parks, but also all the plants and plant matter that
circulate in the space of the city - vegetable waste, market fruits
and vegetables, cut flowers, etc. These various forms give a new
inflection to the history of cities, taking us on a voyage back to
their natural roots. We trace why the presence of certain aspects
of nature in an urban environment has been accepted, sometimes
encouraged; what actors have allowed it to take root and flourish;
and what challenges have been faced along the way. In examining the
vegetal nature of the city at the crossroads of social, economic,
cultural and political history, green spaces and plants reveal
themselves as instruments of urbanity or disorder; agents of stage
setting, schooling and subsistence; objects of commerce,
entertainment, scientific study, wellbeing or good living. From the
gardens of the aristocracy of the Grand Siecle to the market of the
Halles in Paris, from the parks of the Second Empire to botanical
gardens, a whole new history is unveiled and throws the light of
the past over our own time.
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