Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Dorothee Brantz and Sonja Dümpelmann Part I Constructing Green Urban Spaces Integrating City and Nature: Urban Planning Debates in Sofia, Bulgaria 17 Sonia Hirt Green and Modern: Planning Mexico City, 1900–1940 37 Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera Part II Nature and Urban Identity Mediterranean Reflections: Reconstructing Nature in Modern Barcelona 57 Gary McDonogh German Ideologies of City and Nature: The Creation and Reception of Schiller Park in Berlin 75 Stefanie Hennecke Race, Recreation, and the Conflict between Public and Private Nature in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles 95 Lawrence Culver vi | Contents Part III The Function of Nature in the City Nature, Sport, and the European City: London and Helsinki, 1880–2005 115 Peter Clark, Salla Jokela, and Jarmo Saarikivi From the “Functional City” to the “Heart of the City”: Green Space and Public Space in the CIAM Debates of 1942–1952 133 Konstanze Sylva Domhardt Part IV Ecology and the Urban Environment Property Rights, Popular Ecology, and Problems with Wild Plants in Twentieth-Century American Cities 159 Zachary J. S. Falck Building an “Urban Homestead”: Survival, Self-Sufficiency, and Nature in Seattle, 1970–1980 181 Jeffrey Craig Sanders The Making of an Urban Ecology: Biological Expertise and Wildlife Preservation in West Berlin 204 Jens Lachmund Notes on Contributors 229 Index 233 ...