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The Urban Garden City

Shaping the City with Gardens Through History
Buch | Softcover
VIII, 335 Seiten
2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-10257-9 (ISBN)
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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, urbanagriculture 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.

Sandrine Glatron works as a research scientist at the French National Center for Scienctific Research. She has been studying the representations that city dwellers make of their living environment and the nuisances attached to it (various forms of pollution and hazards) since the beginning of this century, in the french context (Strasbourg, Paris). She is also interested in the civic engagement of citizens in environmental causes as participating to new forms of governance. Laurence Granchamp is associated professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Strasbourg in France. Her research topics include citizen mobilization and the mediation of climate change issues, and also on the dynamics of the relation between urbanization and agriculture in `Northern` and Southern` countries particularly Brasil and France, including urban-rural mobility, developments in family farming and how urban agriculture is implemented in strategies for the transition to sustainable cities. She has written multiple articles, chapters, and books on individuals' and households' concerns about climate change, sustainable development and urban agriculture.

(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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cities and Nature
Zusatzinfo VIII, 335 p. 73 illus., 72 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 710 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte Anthropology and Sociology of Urban Areas • Biodiversity in Cities • Collective Gardens • Environmental Geography • Historical Geography • Inhabitant Uses • Moral and Aesthetic Values • urban geography and urbanism • Urban Landscapes in Europe
ISBN-10 3-030-10257-2 / 3030102572
ISBN-13 978-3-030-10257-9 / 9783030102579
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