Greening the City

Exploring the place of nature in the French urban environment from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, this volume reveals a continuous, but fluctuating, interlacing of paving stones and plants. From the gardens of the aristocracy of the Grand Siecle to the market of the Halles in Paris, from the parks of the Second Empire to botanical gardens, a whole new history is unveiled and throws the light of the past over our own time.