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- Title
Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century.
- Authors
Layton-Jones, Katy
- Abstract
For those well versed in the history of British public parks and urban green space, I Greening the City i provides welcome new case-studies and insights that, while familiar enough to guarantee their wider relevance, are also novel and often humorous. Based on the authors' I La ville végétale i , published in French in 2017, I Greening the City i is an exploration of nature in French towns since the seventeenth century. Chapter 6 develops this notion of nature as an urban protagonist, to explore the ideological duality of nature as simultaneously a civilizing force and a "wild" presence in the city.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spaces; CITIES &; towns; ENVIRONMENTAL history; BUILT environment; ECONOMIC history; URBAN history
- Publication
Urban History, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 4, p754
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926821000559