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The Urban Garden City - Shaping the City with Gardens Through History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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The Urban Garden City - Shaping the City with Gardens Through History (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Cities and Nature
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This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of
gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows
that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation,
gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity,
symbolic and social shape, and assets of our cities, and are
increasingly becoming valued as an 'order' to follow. Gardens have
long been part of the development of cities, serving different
purposes through the ages: shaping neighborhoods to promote health
or hygiene, introducing aesthetic or biological elements, gathering
the citizens around a social purpose, and providing food and
diversity in times of crisis. Highlighting examples that can serve
as the basis for comparisons, the chapters offer a brief panorama
of experiences and models of gardens in the city - in the European
context and in various periods of history - while also discussing
issues related to garden cities, urban agriculture and community
gardens. The contributors are university staff from various
disciplines in the human and life sciences, in discourse with other
academics but also with practitioners who are interested in
experiences with urban gardens and in promoting an awareness of
their spatial, social and 'philosophical' goals throughout history.
The book will appeal to urban geographers, sociologists and
historians, but also to urban ecologists dealing with ecosystem
services, biodiversity and sustainable development in cities. From
a more operational standpoint, landscape planners and architects
are sure to find many of the projects enlightening and
inspirational.
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