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Gardens have exerted a deep influence on the culture of cities. Considering each city as a whole, this book presents the profoundly different roles of gardens in cultural development and social life. Private and princely gardens, from Roman antiquity to approximately 1850, are considered, whether in China, India, the Ottoman Empire, Europe, or the United States. Turning to the subject of planning, the dire lack of a municipal garden policy is examined in contemporary Marrakech. In-depth evaluations of parks and garden planning reveal the successes and limitations of different policies in Stockholm, Tokyo, Kerala (India), historic Suzhou (China), and the U.S. New Towns of the 1960s. This book unveils an exciting domain of interplay between public and private action that is little known by citizen groups, city planners, and managers.

About the Author

Michel Conanis Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, <>Dumbarton Oaks.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction

    Part I: Historical Contributions of Gardens to City Life

  1. Gardens and Garden life in Pompeii in the First Century AD
  2. Gardens of Luoyang: The Refinements of a City Culture
  3. Urban Gardens in Ming Jiangnan: Insights from the Essays of Wang Shizhen
  4. Genoese Gardens: Between Pleasure and Politics
  5. Royal Gardens and City Life in Paris (1643—1789)
  6. Garden Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
  7. Biedermeier Gardens in Vienna and the Self-fashioning of Middle-class Identities
  8. The Shanghai Gardens in Transition from the Concessions to the Present Times
  9. Parks, Parkways, and Suburban Communities: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Modern Metropolis
  10. Part II: Gardens in Modern Cities

  11. Swedish Mid-Century Utopia: Park Design as a Tool for Society Improvements
  12. Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning
  13. Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and its Wanton Destruction (1071—2000 AD)
  14. Gardens as Cultural Memory in Suzhou, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries
  15. The Promenades and Public Parks of Tokyo: A Tradition Permanently Reinvented
  16. Ecological and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Homegardens of Kerala, India
  • Contributors
  • Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780884023289
Author:
Conan, Michel
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Editor:
Wangheng, Chen
Author:
Metailie, Georges
Author:
Sankar, S.
Author:
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
Author:
Chan
Author:
Brosseau, Sylvie
Author:
Andersson, Thorbjorn
Author:
Chandrashekara, U. M.
Author:
Jashemski, Wilhelmina F.
Author:
Heikkila, Eric
Author:
El Faiz, Mohammed
Author:
Yinong, XU
Author:
Schuyler, David
Author:
Rotenberg, Robert
Author:
drashekara, U. M.
Author:
Hamadeh, Shirine
Author:
Wangheng, Chen
Subject:
City and town life
Subject:
Social aspects
Subject:
Landscape
Subject:
Planning
Subject:
Garden Design
Subject:
Urban gardens
Subject:
Architecture-Landscape Architecture
Copyright:
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies
Publication Date:
June 2008
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
33 black and white illustrations, 80 col
Pages:
274
Dimensions:
10.38x9.47x1.09 in. 2.89 lbs.

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