Gardens and cultural change : a Pan-American perspective / edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Dumbarton Oaks Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium in Garden History
Other Authors:	Conan, Michel Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : [Cambridge, Mass.] : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Gardens > Symbolic aspects > America > Congresses.
Genre:	Congresses.
Physical Description:	110 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book

Contents:

Introduction : gardens and the construction of cultures in the Americas / Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter
The Chinampas of the valley of Mexico / Saúl Alcántara Onofre
Gardens in the African diaspora : forging a Creole identity in the Caribbean and the U.S. / Catherine Benoît
An ideological-aesthetic approach to Buenos Aires public parks and plazas / Sonia Berjman
Parks and democracy in a growing city : Palermo, Buenos Aires / Daniel Schavelzon
The small parks in New York City and the civilizing process of immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century / Rachel Iannacone.