The Urban Garden City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Places and People of Urban Gardens. Elements for an Introduction

   • Sandrine Glatron, Laurence Granchamp

   Pages 1-14

3. Insight on European Urban Gardens Models Through Ages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Building a Garden: Historiographic Analysis of “Roman Gardens” in the 19th and 20th Centuries

      • Ilse Hilbold

      Pages 17-32

   3. Vorgärten, Privative Green Spaces in Neustadt (Strasbourg, France). A Century of Practices in the Heart of the City

      • Cathy Blanc-Reibel, Olivier Haegel

      Pages 33-51

   4. The Two ‘Ages’ of Modernisation of Allotments: Changing Moral and Aesthetic Models

      • Arnaud Frauenfelder

      Pages 53-77

   5. Russian Collective Gardens: A Story of Institution and Remembrance

      • Frédérick Lemarchand

      Pages 79-97

4. Urban Gardens Under the Biodiversity Order

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. An Agroecological Revolution at the Potager du Roi (Versailles)

      • Pauline Frileux

      Pages 101-129

   3. Community Gardens and Their Potential for Urban Biodiversity

      • Francesca Di Pietro, Lotfi Mehdi, Marion Brun, Céline Tanguay

      Pages 131-151

   4. The Kitchen Garden Between Rationalisation and Ecology: The Eyes of the Gardening Magazines (1950–1999)

      • Stéphane Wandriesse

      Pages 153-164

   5. Making Space for Disorder in the Garden: Developing Biophilia to Conciliate Aesthetics and Biodiversity

      • Mathilde Riboulot-Chetrit, Laurent Simon, Richard Raymond

      Pages 165-184

5. How Gardens are Part of the Urban Landscape Policies and Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. A New Design for Urban Gardens: Being Framed in the Green Infrastructure

      • Sandrine Glatron

      Pages 187-215

   3. The Kitchen Garden of Virtues or The Garden of Values: The Community Garden as Landscaping Project

      • Jean-Noël Consalès, Brice Dacheux-Auzière

      Pages 217-243

   4. Urban Gardens in Greece: A New Way of Living in the City

      • Helene Haniotou, Eleni Dalipi

      Pages 245-268

6. Gardening Collectively: What Potential Places and Space?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269

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   2. Urban Agriculture: From a Creative Disorder to New Arrangements in Rome

      • Beatrice Del Monte, Victoria Sachsé

      Pages 271-288

   3. The Emergence of a Green “Intermittent” City? The Case of Parisian Nomadic Gardens

      • Kaduna-Eve Demailly

      Pages 289-305

   4. Shared Gardens in Strasbourg: Limited Sharing Spaces

      • Kenjiro Muramatsu

      Pages 307-335

This book provides an 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, urbanagriculture 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.

• Collective Gardens
• Inhabitant Uses
• Biodiversity in Cities
• Urban Landscapes in Europe
• Anthropology and Sociology of Urban Areas
• Moral and Aesthetic Values
• urban geography and urbanism
• historical geography
• Environmental Geography

• Laboratoire Dynamiques Européennes—DynamE, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS, Strasbourg, France

  Sandrine Glatron, Laurence Granchamp

Sandrine Glatron works as a research scientist at the French National Center for Scienctific Research. She has been studying the representations that city dwellers make of their living environment and the nuisances attached to it (various forms of pollution and hazards) since the beginning of this century, in the french context (Strasbourg, Paris). 
She is also interested in the civic engagement of citizens in environmental causes as participating to new forms of governance. 


Laurence Granchamp is associated professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Strasbourg in France. Her research topics include citizen mobilization and the  mediation of climate change issues, and also on the dynamics of the relation between urbanization and agriculture in `Northern` and ´Southern` countries particularly Brasil and France, including urban-rural mobility, developments in family farming and how urban agriculture is implemented in strategies for the transition to sustainable cities. 
She has written multiple articles, chapters, and books on individuals' and households' concerns about climate change, sustainable development and urban agriculture. 

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