The Venetian city garden :place, typology, and perception
Basel ; Boston
Birkhauser
c2009
223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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Preface -- A new approach to the Venetian city garden -- Differing perceptions -- Imagining and inhabiting the city -- On writing the history of the Venetian city garden -- Grounds for being; graden-making and the logoon ecology -- Land from the sea -- A repertoire of garden-like spaces -- Venetian gardens in the year 1500 -- Gardens in Jacopo de Barbaris birds-eye view -- Garden layout and design elements: descriptions by 16th-century painters and writers -- A typology of the Venetian garden -- Gazetteer: case histories of selected sites -- Cannaregio -- Castello -- Santa Croce -- Dorsoduro -- San Marco -- San Polo -- Giudecca -- Murano -- Giardini minori -- Botanical and pharmaceutical gardens -- Monastic gardens -- Garden, theatre, and city -- Spectacles and ad hoc gardens -- The Casino in the garden -- Layout of garden spaces -- The invention of public gardens for the modern city -- Napoleons garden interventions -- A laboratory for the modern city -- The Royal Gardens and the Botanical Garden at San Giobbe -- Old ruined gardens and new modern gardens -- "Ruin" and reality -- The advent of "Picturesque" designs -- A repertoire for future gardens -- Possible gardens: grounds for change