Gardens and Cultural Change

A Pan-American Perspective

Edited by Michel Conan

Edited by Jeffrey Quilter

    • Introduction: Gardens and the Construction of Cultures in the Americas
    1. The Chinampas of the Valley of Mexico
    2. Gardens in the African Diaspora: Forging a Creole Identity in the Caribbean and the U.S.
    3. An Ideological-Aesthetic Approach to Buenos Aires Public Parks and Plazas
    4. Parks and Democracy in a Growing City: Palerno, Buenos Aires
    5. The Small Parks in New York City and the Civilizing Process of Immigrants at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    • Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Gardens and Cultural Change
  • A photo of the author

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Jeffrey Quilter is Deputy Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.