Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City: Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995 Tapa dura - 2023

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 9781512823851. 1st edn 1st printing. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial laminated boards (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. 292, illus with b&w photos in text and other figures (no inscriptions).

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2023. Hardcover. New. 320 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.90 inches.

Hardback. New. <p><i>Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City </i>is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris’s local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of the millennium. The parks in this book represent this campaign and illustrate different facets of their cultural and historical context.<br /> Archival research, interviews, and analyses of the parks reveal how postmodern debates about urban planning, the historic city, public space, and nature’s presence in an urban setting influenced their designs. In sum, the city adopted the garden as a model for public parks, investing in complex, richly symbolic and representational spaces. These parks were intended to represent… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

. Hardback. New.