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List of contents
Introduction
The Culture of Cultivation: Designing and Writing the Landscape
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
PART I
Contemporary Practices and Conservation
1. The Practice of Cultivation: A Dialogue of Beauty, Conservation, and Productivity through Design
Thomas L. Woltz
2. Landscape Design and Agriculture: A Mexican Perspective
Mario Schjetnan
3. Productive Conservation for Resilient Urban Regions and Agricultural Hinterlands: Linking Mexico City’s Appetite to Watersheds and Landscapes
Flavio Sciaraffia
PART II
Design and Urban Agriculture
4. The Urban Changes Everything about Agriculture
Laura Lawson and Meredith Taylor
5. Productive Green Community Space: A Challenge for the Contemporary Israeli City
Tal Alon-Mozes
PART III
Histories of Productive Landscapes
6. "L’utile à l’agréable": Planting the Early Modern French Garden
Elizabeth Hyde
7. The "Three Natures": Culture and Cultivation in 18th-Century England
Tom Williamson
PART IV
Preserving the Cultural Landscape
8. Maclura pomifera and the Making of an American Middle: A Case Study
MK Smaby and Carolyn Wheeler – Prairie Studio
9. Cultivating Design: Resilience (and Beauty?) through Adapting Inherited Landscapes
Graham Fairclough
Notes
Index
About the author
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto is a landscape historian and critic. Her scholarly research explores both the world of contemporary landscape architecture and that of early modern gardens and landscapes. She is the author of Medici Gardens: From Making to Design (2008), for which she received the 2010 Society of Architectural Historians’ Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, and the editor of Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception (2017).
Summary
By seeking to rediscover the profession's agricultural roots, this book proposes a 21st-century shift in thinking about landscape architecture that is no longer driven by binary oppositions but prioritizes a holistic and cross-disciplinary framing.
