Almost Black Green. On the Nineteenth-Century Park and the Naturalization of Inequalities
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Perception, Pubblic Park, Anthropocene, Inequalities, Industrial cityAbstract
In the nineteenth century, the projects of what Lewis Mumford called their “positive side” developed together with industrial cities: the large public park. The article aims to show how the inspiration, construction and functioning of these great engineering works also reveal a “dark side”, understood as the use of the landscape and the spectacle of nature as a means of reproducing social inequalities.
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