Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City : : Paris’s New Parks, 1977-1995 / / Amanda Shoaf Vincent.
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris’s local government laun...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 58 b&w halftones, 2 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Jardin Atlantique: From Modernism to Postmodernity in Maine-Montparnasse
- Chapter 2. Jardin des Halles: A Garden at the City Center
- Chapter 3. Gardening and Meaning in the Parc André-Citroën
- Chapter 4. Bercy’s “Jardin de la Mémoire”: Ruin, Allegory, Memory
- Chapter 5. The Promenade Plantée, or Coulée Verte: Practices and Perceptions of Movement
- Conclusion. The City as a Site of Constant Cultivation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments