Research Catalog

Title

Gardens, city life and culture : a world tour / co-edited by Michel Conan and Chen Wangheng.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Conan, Michel.
• Chen, Wangheng.
• Dumbarton Oaks.

Description

274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm.

Summary

"Throughout history gardens have exerted deep influences on the culture of many cities, and yet this is very poorly documented. Seeing each city as a whole, this book seeks to understand the roles played by gardens in cultural development and social life. At the outset it focuses primarily. on private and princely gardens from Roman antiquity to approximately 1850. The book further probes into the successes and failures of park and public garden planning at city scale in Stockholm, Tokyo, Kerala (India) historic Suzhou (China) and in the US New Towns of the 1960s."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks studies in garden and landscape history

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks garden and landscape studies.

Subjects

• City and town life
• Urban gardens > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. City Gardens, Intercommunication and Culture / Michel Conan and Chen Wangheng -- Historical Contributions of Gardens to City Life -- Ch. 1. Gardens and Garden Life in Pompeii in the First Century A.D. / Wilhelmina Jashemsk -- Ch. 2. Gardens of Luoyang: The Refinements of a City Culture / Georges Metailie -- Ch. 3. Urban Gardens in Ming Jiangnan: Insights from the Essays of Wang Shiznen / Kenneth Hammond -- Ch. 4. Genoese Gardens: Between Pleasure and Politics / Lauro Magnani -- Ch. 5. Royal Gardens and City Life in Paris (1643-1789) / Michel Conan -- Ch. 6. Garden Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul / Shirine Hamadeh -- Ch. 7. Biedermeier Gardens in Vienna and the Selffashioning of Middle-class Identities / Robert Rotenberg -- Ch. 8. The Shanghai Gardens in Transition from the Concessions to the Present Times / Zhou Xiang-pin and Chen Zhe-hua -- Ch. 9. Parks, Parkways, and Suburban Communities: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Modem Metropolis / David Schuyler -- Gardens in Modern Cities -- Ch. 10. Swedish Mid-Century Utopia: Park Design as a Toolfor Society Improvements / Thorbjorn Andersson -- Ch. 11. Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning / Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Ch. 12. Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and its Wanton Destruction (1071-2000 A.D.) / Mohammed El Faiz -- Ch. 13. Gardens as Cultural Memory in Suzhou, Eleventh to Nintcenth Centuries / Yinong Xu -- Ch. 14. The Promenades and Public Parks if Tokyo: A Tradition Permanently Reinvented / Sylvie Brosseau -- Ch. 15. Ecological and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Homegardens of Ketola, India / U. M. Chandrashekara and S. Sankar.

ISBN

• 9780884023289
• 0884023281

LCCN

• 2007039438
• 40015581627

OCLC

• 144217801
• ocn144217801
• SCSB-5415152

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries