Main entry:

Hunt, John Dixon.

Title & Author:

The Venetian city garden : place, typology, and perception / John Dixon Hunt.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2009.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
A new approach to the Venetian city garden -- Grounds for being: garden-making and the lagoon ecology -- Venetian gardens in the year 1500 -- Gazetteer: case histories of selected sites -- Giardini minori -- Garden, theatre, and city -- The invention of public gardens for the modern city -- Old ruined gardens and new modern gardens -- Possible gardens: grounds for change.

Summary:

No city has played a more seminal role in the development of "landscape" as a concept than has Venice. In a city where the land and gardens are reclaimed from a lagoon environment whose ecology is in jeopardy today, they are the very basis of life, dwelling, and culture. This book develops a typology of gardens distinguished by their predominantly small scale, all of which work with essential dimensions of landscape architecture: private and public space, usefulness and beauty, and open space in a densely built environment that is permeated with history.--from publisher description

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ISBN:

9783764389437
3764389435

Subject:

Gardens Italy Venice.
Landscape architecture Italy Venice.
Jardins Italie Venise.
Architecture du paysage Italie Venise.
Landscape gardening History. Italy Venice.
Gardens History. Italy Venice.
Landscape gardening History.
Buildings.
Gardens.
Landscape architecture.
Garten
Gartenkunst
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Italy Venice.
Venedig

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283793
Call No.: BIB 222199
Status: Available