Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the CityConstructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the citys program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Pariss local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of the millennium. The parks in this book represent this campaign and