...Anatole Tchikine If the study of garden history, as traditionally conceived, requires a justification, a pertinent line of inquiry lies in the explication of the diverse roles that gardens played in the context of the early modern city. This discussion, however, is hindered by the anachronistic...

[email protected] . 2019 City Beautiful movement Beaux-Arts Cuba gardens Havana urbanism colonialism Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier On 24 February 2018, Cubans gathered to hear President Raúl Castro commemorate the reopening of the national capitol building in Havana: El Capitolio, built in 1929...

...Susan N. Johnson-Roehr In Centering the Chārbāgh : The Mughal Garden as Design Module for the Jaipur City Plan, Susan N. Johnson-Roehr argues that the privileging of a Hindu-Vedic worldview has had a significant effect on our understanding of Jaipur City’s history. Current interpretive approaches...