Maria Bostenaru Dan, 2010, Spaţiul verde redescoperit, Cuvillier, Göttingen
- Author : Maria Bostenaru Dan
- Year : 2010
- Title English : The Rediscovered Green Space
- Publisher : Cuvillier
- Publisher's Location : Göttingen
- ISBN : 9783869553740
- Pages : 324
- Edition : 1
- Abstract : This book is a collection of texts and projects of the author on the green space. The starting point was the assumption that green spaces in the city today are the garden of the lost Paradise, that oasis of relaxation and tranquility. This explains the title of the book: the garden of Eden is seen as the "Sleeping Beauty", which was once accessible, but needs to be rediscovered, to be called memory. The same is true for green spaces, as very often they are threatened by construction intentions. The texts are often accompanied by proposals, for example in case of the garden of Eden a garden project in itself, as well as a scenographic installation on the rediscovery and gardens in a place, where all memory has been erased. The main part of the book is divided into two sections: the small urban gardens and the wider landscape around the town. Both oppose the uncontrolled tendency to build. A urban gardens are considered as Pocket Parks and the gardens of museums, extending the exhibition space itself. Both texts are accompanied by projects to Heidelberg and the Tate Gallery in London respectively. In case of the museum places, the introduction is the analysis of such a garden by Carlo Scarpa, and in tune with it is made a connection to chapters in the next section, namely the reconstruction of ports and industrial zones. The section concludes with an essay on gardens of homes in Zurich. As an introduction for the second section a trip was made in the world of literature. "Wuthering Heights" (picture on the cover: the author at the site of Wuthering Heights) by Emily Brontë, as an example of landscape to be rediscovered, as presented in the book and film in tune with their feelings. The following chapters outline the contemporary approach: green belts and landscapes of the former industrial areas such as ports and the international exhibition Emscher Park, essay and / or project. Two approaches for green belt are considered for analysis: the Green Belt from Frankfurt, which was brought to life in participative approach during a year (1990), and the Forests and Grasslands belt of Vienna, the oldest one, of more than 100 years. In case of Frankfurt's Green Belt an intervention project in the Green Belt is presented, a museum, which, in keeping with the previous section, is provided with a museum garden. In case of the green belt of Vienna the legal basis for maintaining green space protection is presented. Vienna's Green Belt includes parks from conversion of former industrial sites, such as extraction of clay. Also about participatory approach in building it is in case of the IBA Emscher Park, and the industrial landscapes, which become green landscapes, as in the last presented project, the proposed conversion of the port-city of Karlsruhe to such dialogue. Some chapters have been excerpted from the book on the participatory approach from the same publisher. The entire book is bilingual, in Romanian and German, with nearly 50 color pages.
- Comments : in German and Romanian
- Outline : Acknowledgements SECTION I INSTEAD OF FOREWORD Chapter 1 Proposal Paradise Garden New Paradises The development of the concept of the Paradise Garden - starting from the fairy tale "Sleeping beauty" The project The gardens in the city of today Conclusions References SECTION 2 URBAN GARDENS Chapter 2 Pocket Parks Definition Examples Design rules Student project The value and the hazards of pocket parks Conclusions References Chapter 3 Museum places Chapter 4 Case study local partnerships: Improvement of the living environment (ex. green spaces in courtyards) The development of public spaces in Zürich under the motto "Exterior spaces are living spaces" 1986-1990, 1995- Outgoing situation Participative approach Effects Today References SECTION 3 THE LANDSCAPE AROUND THE CITY Chapter 5 Emily Brontë WUTHERING HEIGHTS 124 Chpater 6 "Vision of green spaces": the century project Green Belt Frankfurt: 1990-1991 "Come! In the open space, friend!" (Hoelderlin) Pre-history Outgoing situation Institutional frame The green belt and the strategic planning Landscape concept Participative approach From the history of the green belt after the project year Effects Today Chapter 7 Intervention in the Green Belt in Frankfurt - museum "AQUA MEGA" Urban planning concept Concept of the building Chapter 8 The Green Belt of Vienna at its 100th anniversary (2005) - main ideas, comments and completions to the jubiliary publication History Protection of the Green Belt Landscape zones which compose Vienna's Belt The functions of the Green Belt The Green Belt and participatory planning Conclusions References Chapter 9 Vienna building code Chapter 10 Integration of the communication strategies: I.B.A. Emscher-Park "Workshop for the future of old industrial zones" Pre-history Tasks and action zones Directory projects (involving over 92 project innitiatives) Instrumental frame Effects Today References Chapter 11 The harbour at the Rhine in Karlsruhe Karlsruhe to the Rhine or the Rhine to Karlsruhe About the author