Diego Molina

Planting a City in the Tropical Andes (eBook, ePUB)

Plants and People in Bogotá, 1880 to 1920

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040148648
• Artikelnr.: 72273238

Autorenporträt

Diego Molina is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a botanist who turned to historical geography to understand the changing relationships between people and plants. Before becoming a British Academy Fellow at the RHUL, he was a Rachel Carson Fellow in Munich.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Genesis of Bogotá's Mixed Flora 2. Urban Spaces, Cultivated Plants
and People 3. The 'invisible' Flora 4. From colonial squares to hygienic
gardens 5. The gardeners 6. The plants 7. New and disciplined relationships
with Plants 8. A treeless and desolate land 9. The alamedas and the liberty
tree 10. Eucalyptus: the all-purpose tree