| Abstrakt: |
Cities have been planted with trees for more than 400 years, yet much research on city trees only covers the nineteenth century formal green spaces like parks. This research on the green space of the Antwerp city ramparts in the eighteenth century wants to break with this tradition by showing that much visited green spaces existed already before 1800 and that these spaces were actively maintained through regulation and new plantings. In addition, the city green on the Antwerp ramparts underwent major changes as a result of the eighteenth-century attention for urban green, which is called the ‘embellishment’ of cities in the literature. The unique Antwerp case might even show a prelude to how cities treated urban green in the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
