CONTENTS Preface 8 Introduction10 Disturbed Terrain - Marc Treio16 Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens 26 MFO-Park, Zurich, Switzerland 32 A Short Psychogram of Urban Green - Ulrich Maximilian Schumann38 Promenade Plantee and Viaduc des Arts, Paris, France44 Quai de Saone, Lyon, France50 Schoneberger Sudgelande Nature Park, Berlin, Germany54 Main Riverside, Frankfurt am Main, Germany60 Madrid RIO, Madrid, Spain66 The Challenge of Plants! Cassia n Schmidt72 Les Grands Ateliers de I'lsle d'Abeau, Villefontaine, France80 Botanical Garden, Bordeaux, France84 Green Is Cool - New Garden Cities for the 21st Century? do Weiiacher 88 Private Garden, Berlin, Germany96 Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, Ruschlikon, Switzerland 100 Private Garden, Bruges, Belgium106 Garden of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, Rome, Italy 110 GARTEN MAX LIEBERMANN, BERLIN, DEUTSCHLAND [ Max Liebermann's Garden, Berlin, Germany116 Urban Green - Historical and Ecological Perspectives Wolfgang Ha her 122 Public Courtyard, Dordrecht, The Netherlands128 The Wild Garden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France132 Kulturgarten, Berlin, Germany138 Historical Gardens in the City: A Plea for the Conservation of Historic Gardens - Inken Formann144 Potters Field Park, London, Great Britain154 De Nieuwe Ooster Cemetery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands158 Civic Agricultures-Urban Gardening between Sensual Pleasures and Social Renewal of the City Richard Ingersoll164 . Pru Rubattino-ex Maserati, Milan, Italy172 Pare Central and Avenue John F. Kennedy, Plateau de Kirchberg, Luxembourg 176 Redesign of Georg-Freundorfer-Platz, Munich, Germany 182 ULAP-Platz, Berlin, Germany186 Green between Inside and Outside: Notes from the Edges of the City Oetlev Ipsen 192 Domplatz, Hamburg, Germany208 El Parque del Agua, Zaragoza, Spain212 The Shifting Meaning of Nature in the City - Christophe Girot218 Former Bonames Airfield, Frankfurt am Main, Germany226 Westergasfabriek Culture Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands230 The Upkeep of Urban Green! Nobert Kuhn 236 Author biographies240 Illustration credits245