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A History of Groves (Hardcover)
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A History of Groves (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
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The grove, a grouping of trees, intentionally cultivated or found
growing wild, has a long diverse history entwined with human
settlement, rural practices and the culture and politics of cities.
A grove can be a memorial, a place of learning, a site of poetic
retreat and philosophy or political encampment, a public park or
theatre, a place of hidden pleasures, a symbol of a vanished forest
ecology, or a place of gods or other spirits. Yet groves are
largely absent from our contemporary vocabulary and rarely included
in today's landscape practice, whether urban or rural. Groves are
both literal and metaphorical manifestations, ways of defining
spaces and ecologies in our cultural life. Since they can add
meaning to urban forms and ecologies and contribute meaningfully to
the significance of place, critical examination is long overdue.
The editors have taken care to ensure that the text is accessible
to the general reader as well as specialists.
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