The Urban Garden City: Shaping the City with Gardens Through History

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic and social shape, and assets of our cities, and are increasingly becoming valued as an ‘order’ to follow.
Gardens have long been part of the development of cities, serving different purposes through the ages: shaping neighbo...