{"title":"Agricultural infrastructure and the gardens of Middleton Place","authors":"Roxi Thoren","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1732644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1732644","url":null,"abstract":"Middleton Place, a former rice plantation west of Charleston, South Carolina, contains gardens that are exceptional in US garden history. They are among the oldest extant designed gardens in the United States, and the plantation is one of very few properties in continuous family ownership since the era of the royal land grant. While time, natural disaster, and war all took their toll on the plantation, the bones of the eighteenth-century gardens are intact, and they are the only colonial Baroque gardens in the United States that were never substantially altered (figure 1). The 20-acre gardens were part of a regional landscape of rice production that included Middleton Place itself and the Middleton family’s dozens of rice plantations, and that comprised the South Carolina lowcountry region. Middleton Place is an unusual intact example of a lowcountry plantation where garden and rice fields were two sides of the same coin: landscapes carefully organized, formed, and regulated to guide human activity in the production and display of wealth and prestige. The seat of the Middleton family’s rice enterprise for over a century, the 6,500-acre plantation was renowned for its formal gardens and terraced site, now a National Historic Landmark. Yet despite its significance, Middleton Place has not been studied as an integrated garden and agricultural landscape. Mentions of the plantation in garden histories discuss the extraordinary terraces stepping down to the Ashley River, and the Le Nôtre-inspired gardens that use a nearlymile-long reach of the river to create a water axis at the scale of Vaux-leVicomte. The gardens, altered by war, earthquake, and natural processes, have been interpreted based on their partial reconstruction in the twentieth-century, and problematically, they have never been fully analyzed or critiqued as embedded within an agricultural landscape. Geometric gardens and geomorphic rice fields mirrored each other, as earthworks and water flow organized the two landscapes and structured the daily and seasonal movements of two groups of people, the black enslaved workers and the white planters. The domestic core of the plantation is at the eastern edge of the property, overlooking the Ashley River and organized along a 1,980-foot (30-chain) east–west axis. Within the core, geometrically organized leisure and display areas are located to the north and east, with the productive landscapes located to the south and west where they are organized functionally by topography, hydrology and solar access. A 6-acre parterre garden overlooks the river, flowing down over beveled terraces influenced by Versailles’ Triton Fountain to two oblong reflecting pools and then to the river. An 11-acre pleasure garden sits to the north, and to the south were vegetable gardens and an orchard, along with farm buildings, the work yard, and ‘the street’ containing the homes and gardens of the enslaved workers (figure 2).","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"146 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1732644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41969576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making gardens and designed landscapes in the first millennium CE","authors":"P. Bowe","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1739425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1739425","url":null,"abstract":"Garden and designed landscape making in the first millennium CE encompassed that of many cultures. 1 In Europe, it included, at the beginning of the millennium, the garden making of Imperial Rome, ...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"307 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1739425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43442351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fourth nature of the contemporary city: from Rio de Janeiro to Seattle, Washington","authors":"Barbara Boifava","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1706893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1706893","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of ‘fourth nature’, intended as the nature of the city, will be developed through an examination of the urban forest projects of two important experiences in modern landscape design: Roberto Burle Marx’s Aterro do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, and the Seattle Freeway Park by Lawrence Halprin & Associates. These works suggest an entirely new project for public space — intended as the transposition of an original landscape and a native ecology, such as the Floresta da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro, and the original ‘old growth’ forest of Seattle. The definition of ‘fourth nature’ is added to the three different categories of nature as described in the literature of landscape studies: a ‘first nature’, seen as wild, luxuriant and uncontaminated, is connected to a ‘second nature’ identified by Cicero as the cultural landscape that is productive and shaped by human activity (agriculture, urban development, roads etc.). To these two definitions the garden can be appended as a ‘third nature’, shaped for aesthetic purposes and designed as a combination of nature and culture. The urban question is thus enhanced with a new poetic that, following the idea of ‘fourth nature’, promotes a harmonious growth of the city wherein its natural dimension bestows a new and more effective meaning in the form of open public space. This is evidently not the same idea of ‘fourth nature’ as described by John Dixon Hunt, regarding the symbolic and ideal spaces in landscape design generated by literature on gardens, and his considering it as the ‘verbal, conceptual existence beyond its practical aspects’. Connected to the definition of ‘fourth nature’, there is also the ‘four natures approach’ that is applied to urban reality by Ingo Kowarik as a conceptual framework in which to structure and communicate a variety of green spaces within urban borders. In this case the ‘fourth nature’ identified by the German landscape ecologist includes the spontaneous plant-life that develops in brownfield sites in abandoned areas of the postindustrial cites, which is different from an image of nature incorporated in the city and from the city that I intend to present with this article. What distinguishes this new poetics of nature is its basis in a recognized ecological paradigm, and its capacity to shed light on a new functional aesthetic that can be applied in the urban landscape. My research centers on a renewed relationship between the city and nature starting with the evaluation of the effective natural scale of an urban project, as a specific model in the development of the contemporary city based on an awareness of Ecology’s role in the processes of urban planning. The urban scene becomes a field of experimentation of strongly innovative approaches that are capable of evoking natural processes, while validating formal and ideological reflections of a profound ecological significance. In particular, the Parque do Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 1960s and the F","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"128 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1706893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47484379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new terraced garden in Sicily: the poetic art of stones in landscape","authors":"Valerio Morabito","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2020.1713642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2020.1713642","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns a garden in Sicily that I designed. This private garden is called ‘Terreforti Garden,’ and uses a typical Sicilian drywall technique, organized by drywalls that create a serie...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"296 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2020.1713642","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45384835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cascine in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: a context for François-Xavier Fabre’s View of Florence from the Cascine","authors":"Graham M. Smith","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1639933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1639933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"65 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1639933","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44412816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modern park for a modern city: planning Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park during the 1960s-1970s","authors":"T. Alon-Mozes, Shirili Gilad-Ilsar","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1671055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1671055","url":null,"abstract":"Engulfing the Yarkon stream in the northern part of Tel Aviv, the 375-hectares Yarkon Park is the largest public park in Israel and considered as a symbol and a prototype of the modern Israeli park (see Figure 1). Its size is a little larger than Central Park in NewYork and double the size of London’s Hyde Park.The first proposal to establish a green open space on the agricultural lands on the outskirts of town appeared in 1925, when Patrick Geddes, the renowned Scottish planner, prepared the first master plan for Tel Aviv. However, the actual planning of the park and its implementation started only during the 1960s. The expansive pastoral park on both banks of the Yarkon Stream exemplifies two processes of the 1960s that are simultaneously separate and connected. The first is the change of Tel Aviv’s status from ‘The First Hebrew Town’ to Israel’s economic and cultural centre. The second is the adoption of the pastoral park as the prototype of Israel’s large urban parks. Whereas the planning of pre-statehood gardens and parks was part of the national project of creating a Hebrew culture among pre-statehood Zionist settlers in Palestine (1880–1948), the 1960s was when the debate between the local garden culture vs. the Western garden culture was decided in favour of the Western style of garden design and especially the 19 century pastoral park as a symbol of Israeli landscape modernism. This article explores the planning process of Yarkon Park in light of the modern landscape architecture movement in the West and as a modern local icon. It analyses primary sources from private and municipal archives and the documentation of the park in the local general and professional press. The discussion emphasises the role of pastoralism in the making of the Israeli parks.","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"80 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1671055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45747363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rational entertainment and instructive amusement: Philadelphia’s nineteenth-century urban pleasure gardens and the emergence of nightlife","authors":"A. Beamish","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1626563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1626563","url":null,"abstract":"Philadelphia’s eighteenth-century rural pleasure gardens––Gray’s Gardens, Harrowgate, Wigwam Baths, and Bush Hill––were tentative first steps that demonstrated a demand for evening entertainment, b...","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"14 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1626563","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48158773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watching grass grow: a history","authors":"C. Urmy","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1600833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1600833","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1600833","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45840688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using proximate real estate to fund England’s nineteenth century pioneering urban parks: viable vehicle or mendacious myth?","authors":"J. Crompton","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2019.1638164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1638164","url":null,"abstract":"Using proximate real estate to fund England’s nineteenth century pioneering urban parks: viable vehicle or mendacious myth? John L. CromptonJOHN L. CROMPTON To cite this article: John L. CromptonJOHN L. CROMPTON (2020) Using proximate real estate to fund England’s nineteenth century pioneering urban parks: viable vehicle or mendacious myth?, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 40:1, 43-64, DOI: 10.1080/14601176.2019.1638164 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2019.1638164","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"40 1","pages":"43 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2019.1638164","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47108423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visions of an unrealized park: Chile’s Cerro San Cristóbal, 1915–1927","authors":"R. Hecht","doi":"10.1080/14601176.2018.1429374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14601176.2018.1429374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53992,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES","volume":"39 1","pages":"213 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14601176.2018.1429374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41394134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}