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Greening the city nature in French towns from the 17th century /
Exploring the place of nature in the French urban environment from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, this volume reveals a continuous, but fluctuating, interlacing of paving stones and plants. From the gardens of the aristocracy of the Grand Siècle to the market of the Halles in Paris, f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winwick, Cambridgeshire :
The White Horse Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. GREENERY SCENERY: PLANT LIFE IN THE CITY, SEVENTEENTH TOTWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
- What is a town?
- What nature ?
- Nature in town, nature of the town ?
- 1. WHY BRING NATURE INTO TOWN?
- A new requirement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- The vegetal: A therapy for the sick city of the industrial age
- Green urbanism: What nature for the twentieth century town?
- 2. GREEN FINGERS: ACTORS IN THE VEGETALISATION OF TOWNS
- Private individuals
- The professionals
- Public authorities
- 3. TURNING THE TOWN GREEN: A CHALLENGE
- Make way for greenery!
- What style of greenery for the town?
- Conquering the hostility of the urban environment
- 4. VEGETAL THEATRE
- Living together in urban nature
- Vegetal order
- Narcissus in the city. Plant life in one's own image
- 5. WELLBEING, LIVING WELL
- Celebration greenery
- Pleasure gardens
- Time out in nature
- 6. THE URBAN JUNGLE? PLANT LIFE... WILD LIFE
- Unwelcome plant life
- Discipline and punish: Disorder in parks
- Vegetal battles
- 7. THE ECONOMICS OF THE VEGETAL
- The town, a great market for the vegetal
- Producing the vegetal in town
- A garden of one's own
- 8. NATURE AND LEARNING
- Sites of learning
- When city dwellers become botanists...
- Science as spectacle
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX