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

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 typolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, John Dixon
Language:English
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Gardens > Italy > Venice.
Landscape architecture > Italy > Venice.
Venice (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Physical Description:223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.