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Aménagement des espaces verts urbains et du paysage rural : histoire composition - éléments construits.
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ISBN: 2852067269 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris : Lavoisier Technique et Documentation,


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Aménagement des espaces verts urbains et du paysage rural : histoire, composition, éléments construits
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ISSN: 09822518 ISBN: 2743004258 9782743004255 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris: Technique et Documentation Lavoisier,


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The Urban Garden City : Shaping the City with Gardens Through History
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ISBN: 3319727338 331972732X Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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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, 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, urban agriculture 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.


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Cultivating the city in early medieval Italy
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ISBN: 1108773966 1108801021 1108802273 1108489117 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Food-growing gardens first appeared in early medieval cities during a period of major social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, and they quickly took on a critical role in city life. The popularity of urban gardens in the medieval city during this period has conventionally been understood as a sign of decline in the post-Roman world, signalling a move towards a subsistence economy. Caroline Goodson challenges this interpretation, demonstrating how urban gardens came to perform essential roles not only in the economy, but also in cultural, religious, and political developments in the emerging early medieval world. Observing changes in how people interacted with each other and their environments from the level of individual households to their neighbourhoods, and the wider countryside, Goodson draws on documentary, archival, and archaeological evidence to reveal how urban gardening reconfigured Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

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