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Author Vincent, Amanda Shoaf

Title Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City Paris's New Parks, 1977-1995
Published Maidenhead : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (305 p.)
Series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture Ser
Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture Ser
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jardin Atlantique: From Modernism to Postmodernity in Maine-Montparnasse -- Chapter 2. Jardin des Halles: A Garden at the City Center -- Chapter 3. Gardening and Meaning in the Parc André-Citroën -- Chapter 4. Bercy's "Jardin de la Mémoire": Ruin, Allegory, Memory -- Chapter 5. The Promenade Plantée, or Coulée Verte: Practices and Perceptions of Movement -- Conclusion. The City as a Site of Constant Cultivation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Parks -- France -- Paris
Gardens -- France -- Paris
Gardens, French -- France -- Paris
City planning -- France -- Paris
Landscape architecture -- France -- Paris
City planning.
Gardens.
Gardens, French.
Landscape architecture.
Parks.
France -- Paris.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1512823864
9781512823868