Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Reading in gardens 13
3. A cosmogenic park landscape 22
4. A garden as space for political experience 28
5. Symbolic readings 34
6. Forest park with computer interface 38
7. No flowers on board 43
8. Traces in steel 48
9. Heroic death in the tulip field 54
10. Reading along historic city lines 59
11. White memory on a green ground 65
12. Climbers on “Monte Thyssino” 70
13. Art in an artificial Arcadia 75
14. Tales of the water dragon 82
15. Tree island and woodland clearing 87
16. Iceberg in a sea of lilac 92
17. Box-trees parking in Stock Exchange Square 96
18. Fragments of garden history 100
19. The peaceful garden Utopia 108
20. Empty plinths in the box parterre 114
21. An urban garden beyond ecological clichés 123
22. A park as a promise 130
23. Green fur on a steel skeleton 137
24. A sunken hortus conclusus 142
25. Joints in panoramic view 147
26. Landscape in abstract folds 152
27. Nature fragments in a geometrical network 158
28. A young classic with two faces 164
29. In the garden of the fateful cards 169
30. Rebellion against Modernism 175
31. Backmatter 182