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Item Number: 116260
Title: The London Square : Gardens in the Midst of Town
Author: Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300152012
Description: New Haven and London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2012. 29cm., hardcover, 334pp., 280 illus., several in color. Summary: Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive and admired features of the metropolis and are England's greatest contribution to the development of European town planning and urban form. Traditionally, inhabitants who overlooked these gated communal gardens paid for their maintenance and had special access to them. As such, they have long been synonymous with privilege, elegance, and prosperous metropolitan living. They epitomize the classical notion of rus in urbe, the integration of nature within the urban plan—a concept that continues to shape cities to this day.
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