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PublisherDumbarton Oaks

ISBN-100884023281

ISBN-139780884023289

eBay Product ID (ePID)57181510

Product Key Features

Number of Pages270 Pages

Publication NameGardens, City Life and Culture : a World Tour

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Landscape, General, Garden Design, Sociology / Urban

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichel. Conan

Subject AreaArchitecture, Social Science, Gardening

SeriesDumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Garden History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width9.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-039438

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal712.09173/2

Table Of ContentIntroduction Part I: Historical Contributions of Gardens to City Life Gardens and Garden life in Pompeii in the First Century AD Gardens of Luoyang: The Refinements of a City Culture Urban Gardens in Ming Jiangnan: Insights from the Essays of Wang Shizhen Genoese Gardens: Between Pleasure and Politics Royal Gardens and City Life in Paris (1643-1789) Garden Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul Biedermeier Gardens in Vienna and the Self-fashioning of Middle-class Identities The Shanghai Gardens in Transition from the Concessions to the Present Times Parks, Parkways, and Suburban Communities: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Modern Metropolis Part II: Gardens in Modern Cities Swedish Mid-Century Utopia: Park Design as a Tool for Society Improvements Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and its Wanton Destruction (1071-2000 AD ) Gardens as Cultural Memory in Suzhou, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries The Promenades and Public Parks of Tokyo: A Tradition Permanently Reinvented Ecological and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Homegardens of Kerala, India Contributors Index

SynopsisGardens 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., 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. It unveils an exciting domain of interplay between public and private action that is little known by citizen groups, city planners, and managers.

LC Classification NumberSB473.D76 2007