The urban garden city : shaping the city with gardens through history /: shaping the city with gardens through history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandrine Glatron, Laurence Granchamp, editors.
• Editors: Glatron, Sandrine; Granchamp, Laurence
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Contributors; 1 Places and People of Urban Gardens. Elements for an Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 Key Elements for a Typology to Characterize Urban Gardens; 1.2 Where in the Urban Area?; 1.3 What Is Grown?; 1.4 How?; 1.5 Why/What for?; 1.6 Who?; 1.7 Structure of the Book; References; Insight on European Urban Gardens Models Through Ages; 2 Building a Garden: Historiographic Analysis of "Roman Gardens" in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A "Prehistory" of Gardens: A Philological and Literary Nineteenth Century. 2.3 Pierre Grimal and "Les Jardins Romains"2.4 Gardens to Live in: The Residential Horti of Rome; 2.5 Conclusion; Bibliography; 3 Vorgärten, Privative Green Spaces in Neustadt (Strasbourg, France). A Century of Practices in the Heart of the City; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The European Hygienist Trend: A Context Favoring the Creation of Gardens and Green Spaces; 3.3 The Vorgarten, an Example of an Urban Planning Tool Established in Strasbourg; 3.4 Today: Toward a New Environmental Order?; 3.5 The Place of the Inhabitants: Between Hyper-appropriation and Neglect; 3.6 Conclusion. 5.2 A Primary Role as a Familial Institution5.3 The Economic Role: Distinguishing Discourse and Facts; 5.4 The Garden as a Work of Art Dedicated to Remembrance and as a Vector for the Transmission of the Farming Culture; 5.5 Collective Garden, Landscape, and Transmission; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Urban Gardens Under the Biodiversity Order; 6 An Agroecological Revolution at the Potager du Roi (Versailles); Abstract; 6.1 Introduction: A Place for Producing Food, Walking and Teaching; 6.2 The Heritage: Countering and Surpassing Nature; 6.2.1 A Soil Created from Scratch. 6.2.2 A Model of Organisation and Beauty6.2.3 Eliminating Canker and Weeds; 6.2.4 Fruit Tree Aesthetics; 6.2.5 Producing Out of Season; 6.2.6 Intensive Monoculture; 6.3 Imitating Nature: Three Major Upheavals; 6.3.1 "Breaking Monoculture"; 6.3.2 Welcoming Animals; 6.3.3 Protecting and Nourishing the Soil; 6.4 The Conditions for the Emergence of an Agroecological Paradigm; 6.4.1 A Crisis Situation: An "Indescribable Jungle"; 6.4.2 An Economic Driver: Reducing Costs and Increasing Production; 6.4.3 An Ecological Driver: Natural Cultivation.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 635.09173/2; Geography; Urban gardens; Urban gardens -- History; City planning; GARDENING -- Essays; GARDENING -- Reference; GARDENING -- Vegetables; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture; City planning; Urban gardens; Geography; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Urban History; Historical Geography; Landscape Ecology; Urban Studies/Sociology; Environmental Geography; History -- General; History -- Historical Geography; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Social Science -- Sociology -- Urban; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; History: specific events & topics; Historical geography; Plant ecology; Sociology; Physical geography & topography; Historical geography; Landscape ecology; Sociology, Urban; Social Science -- Human Geography; Human geography; Electronic books; History; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319727332; 3319727338
• Related ISBNs: 9783319727325; 331972732X
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 29, 2018).
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