1st Edition
Planting a City in the Tropical Andes Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920
By Diego Molina
Copyright 2025
248 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book reveals how the 19 th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants – showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a ‘floristic island’ formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.
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1. The Genesis of Bogotá’s Mixed Flora 2. Urban Spaces, Cultivated Plants and People 3. The ‘invisible’ Flora 4. From colonial squares to hygienic gardens 5. The gardeners 6. The plants 7. New and disciplined relationships with Plants 8. A treeless and desolate land 9. The alamedas and the liberty tree 10. Eucalyptus: the all-purpose tree
Biography
Diego Molina is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a botanist who turned to historical geography to understand the changing relationships between people and plants. Before becoming a British Academy Fellow at the RHUL, he was a Rachel Carson Fellow in Munich.
