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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Clark (University of Helsinki, Finland) , Marjaana Niemi , Catharina Nolin (Stockholm University, Sweden)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.725kg ISBN: 9781472464392ISBN 10: 1472464397 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 15 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Peter Clark City Trends 2 Vegetation and Green Spaces in Paris: A Spatial Approach Jean Luc Pinol 3 London’s Green Spaces in the Late Twentieth Century – The Rise and Decline of Municipal Policies Matti O. Hannikainen 4 Outdoor Recreation and Green Space in Helsinki and Dublin, c. 1965 – 1985: A Transnational Comparison Suvi Talja Varieties of Green Space 5 Impacts of Residential Infilling on Private Gardens in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Anna Ojala, Jari Niemelä, and Vesa Yli-Pelkonen 6 The Right to the Garden: Allotments and the Politics of Urban Green Space in Sweden Jennifer Mack and Justin Scherma Parscher 7 Green Space in Socialist and Post-socialist Zagreb Valentina Gulin Zrnić 8 ‘In Antwerp, the Birds Cough in the Morning’: Green Space Activism in a Time of Urban Flight: The Case of Post-War Antwerp Bart Tritsmans Interactions 9 The Urban Politics of Nature: Two Centuries of Green Spaces in Berlin 1800–2014 Dorothee Brantz 10 Immigrants and Green Space in the Helsinki Region Niko Lipsanen 11 Women Landscape Planners and Green Space: Sweden 1930–1970 Catharina Nolin 12 Urban Green Space in a Globalising World Peter Clark 13 Epilogue: How Green is Your City? Transnational and Local Perspectives on Urban Green Spaces Marjaana Niemi IndexReviewsGreen Spaces in the European City: 1750-2010 follows on the successful publication of European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg (2006) and Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City (2009). Richly illustrated with many useful plates and figures, the essays touch upon a wide variety of subjects, including green spaces, recreation, private gardens, allotments, green activism, immigrants, and women planners. Geographically expansive, this new book ranges over Paris, London, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin, Antwerp, Zagreb, and cities in Sweden. Concluding chapters examine green space in a globalizing world and transnational/local issues. Each essay offers a fresh approach to a central topic influencing urban growth and development in Europe and beyond. Martin V. Melosi, author of The Sanitary City, University of Texas, USA Green Spaces in the European City: 1750-2010 follows on the successful publication of European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St Petersburg (2006) and Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City (2009). Richly illustrated with many useful plates and figures, the essays touch upon a wide variety of subjects, including green spaces, recreation, private gardens, allotments, green activism, immigrants, and women planners. Geographically expansive, this new book ranges over Paris, London, Helsinki, Dublin, Berlin, Antwerp, Zagreb, and cities in Sweden. Concluding chapters examine green space in a globalizing world and transnational/local issues. Each essay offers a fresh approach to a central topic influencing urban growth and development in Europe and beyond. Martin V. Melosi, author of The Sanitary City, University of Texas, USA Author InformationPeter Clark, Emeritus Professor of European Urban History, University of Helsinki, Finland and Visiting Professor, University of Leicester, UK. Marjaana Niemi, Professor of History, University of Tampere, Finland. Catharina Nolin, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Stockholm, Sweden. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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