1st Edition
Green Landscapes in the European City, 1750–2010
List 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
Index
Biography
Peter 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.
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
