Titre et auteur:

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.

Description:

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

Série(s):

Dumbarton Oaks studies in garden and landscape history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gardens and garden life in Pompeii in the first century A.D. / by Wilhelmina Jashemsk -- Gardens of Luoyang : the refinements of a city culture / by Georges Métailié -- Urban gardens in Ming Jiangnan : insights from the essays of Wang Shizhen / by Kenneth Hammond -- Genoese gardens : between pleasure and politics / by Lauro Magnani -- Royal gardens and city life in Paris (1643-1789) / by Michel Conan -- Garden sociability in eighteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul / by Shirine Hamadeh -- Biedermeier gardens in Vienna and the self-fashioning of middle-class identities / by Robert Rotenberg -- The Shanghai gardens in transition from the concessions to the present times / by Zhou Xiang-pin and Chen Zhe-hua ; translated from the Chinese and annotated by Stephen H. West -- Parks, parkways, and suburban communities : Frederick Law Olmsted and the modern metropolis / by David Schuyler -- Swedish mid-century utopia : park design as a tool for society improvements / by Thorbjörn Andersson -- Cities in the garden : American new towns and landscape planning / by Nicholas Dagen Bloom -- Marrakech : an ecological miracle and its wanton destruction (1071-2000 A.D.) / by Mohammed El Faïz ; translated from the French by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman -- Gardens as cultural memory in Suzhou, eleventh to nineteenth centuries / by Yinong Xu -- The promenades and public parks of Tokyo : a tradition permanently reinvented / by Sylvie Brosseau -- Ecological and socioeconomic dimensions of homegardens of Kerala, India / by U.M. Chandrashekara and S. Sankar.
English, with one article translated from Chinese and one from French.

Résumé:

Seeks to understand the roles played by gardens from Roman antiquity to approximately 1850, particularly as they relate to public life in large cities.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780884023289
0884023281

Sujet:

Urban gardens.
Urban gardens Social aspects.
City and town life.
Jardins urbains.
Jardins urbains Aspect social.
Vie urbaine.
gardens.
landscaping.
public parks.
history.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Garten
Gesellschaft
Stadt
Stadtleben
Stadtpark
Jardins Aspect social.
Jardins Histoire.
Parker historia.
Trädgårdar historia.
Parker sociala aspekter.
Trädgårdar sociala aspekter.
Stadsliv.
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Vedettes secondaires:

Conan, Michel.
Chen, Wangheng.
Dumbarton Oaks.
Dumbarton Oaks studies in garden and landscape history.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 257494
Cote: BIB 187991
Statut: Disponible