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- L'auteur
- 13 x 21 cm
- 384 pages
- 59 black and white illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9092-8325-8
- Text in French only
Curator of Promenades and Plantations for the city of Paris, Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier (1861-1930) is a major figure in landscape town planning. Published in 1908, his seminal work, Big Cities and Park Systems, is republished here in its entirety, with its illustrations, a system of critical notes on the cities he mentions, and more technical unpublished texts. Applying the “Park System” model developed by the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), author of Central Park in New York, to the Haussmannian system, Forestier organizes the physical connections between parks and gardens at an urban scale. We owe him the first cycle path, the restoration of Bagatelle Park and the opening of promenade avenues such as Avenue de Breteuil. In 1923, he undertook a project developing a network of avenues of this type connecting the Saint-Cloud park to the one in Sceaux. In addition to private gardens, he created the María Luisa Park in Seville, the Montjuich and Tibidabo gardens in Barcelona, and vast projects for Buenos Aires, Lisbon and Marrakech.