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David rifkind food and the city histories of culture and cultivation dumbarton oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture hardcover may 25 2015 by dorothee imbert editor see all formats and editions. Food and the city explores the physical social and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements essays offer a variety of perspectives from landscape and architectural history to geography on the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes across the globe from the sixteenth century to the present. Dorothee imbert ed food and the city histories of culture and cultivation washington dc dumbarton oaks 2015 food and the city explores the physical social and political relations between the production of food and urban settlements its thirteen essays discuss the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes from market . Composed of papers given at the 25 th dumbarton oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture this volume examines gardens from twelfth century china and western and northern europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries while these gardens were created in drastically different places and times they may share a similar role in forming culture unintended by their designers. Material type text series dumbarton oaks colloquium on the history of landscape architecture xxxvi publisher washington dc dumbarton oaks research library and collection 2015 description xi 374 pages illustrations some color maps some color 28 cm isbn 9780884024040 subjects urban agriculture congresses