Gardens, City Life, and Culture

A World Tour

Edited by Michel Conan

Edited by Chen Wangheng

    • Introduction

      Part I: Historical Contributions of Gardens to City Life

    1. Gardens and Garden life in Pompeii in the First Century AD
    2. Gardens of Luoyang: The Refinements of a City Culture
    3. Urban Gardens in Ming Jiangnan: Insights from the Essays of Wang Shizhen
    4. Genoese Gardens: Between Pleasure and Politics
    5. Royal Gardens and City Life in Paris (1643—1789)
    6. Garden Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
    7. Biedermeier Gardens in Vienna and the Self-fashioning of Middle-class Identities
    8. The Shanghai Gardens in Transition from the Concessions to the Present Times
    9. Parks, Parkways, and Suburban Communities: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Modern Metropolis

      10. Part II: Gardens in Modern Cities

    10. Swedish Mid-Century Utopia: Park Design as a Tool for Society Improvements
    11. Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning
    12. Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and its Wanton Destruction (1071—2000 AD)
    13. Gardens as Cultural Memory in Suzhou, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries
    14. The Promenades and Public Parks of Tokyo: A Tradition Permanently Reinvented
    15. Ecological and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Homegardens of Kerala, India
    • Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Gardens, City Life, and Culture
  • A photo of the author

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

Chen Wangheng is Professor of Humanities at Wuhan University.