The Urban Garden City Shaping the City with Gardens Through History /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glatron, Sandrine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Granchamp, Laurence (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cities and Nature,
• Subjects: Urban geography.; Cities and towns-History.; Historical geography.; Landscape ecology.; Sociology, Urban.; Environmental geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban History.; Historical Geography.; Landscape Ecology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Environmental Geography.

This book provides an extensive 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, a...

Table of Contents:

• (preliminary) 1. Introduction
• 2. Views on urban garden models through ages
• 3. Urban gardens under the biodiversity order
• 4. How gardens are part of the urban landscape policies
• 5. Gardening collectives today - possible spaces.