Overview
- Provides illustrative examples of the changing shape and uses of urban gardens in Europe throughout history
- Presents interdisciplinary approaches to gardens in cities
- Explores the historical evolution of the various views society has attached to this form (nature, food supply, biodiversity) in the cityscape
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Insight on European Urban Gardens Models Through Ages
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Urban Gardens Under the Biodiversity Order
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How Gardens are Part of the Urban Landscape Policies and Practices
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Gardening Collectively: What Potential Places and Space?
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Urban Garden City
Book Subtitle: Shaping the City with Gardens Through History
Editors: Sandrine Glatron, Laurence Granchamp
Series Title: Cities and Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72733-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72732-5Published: 09 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10257-9Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72733-2Published: 24 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban History, Historical Geography, Landscape Ecology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Environmental Geography