Description

• Title:
  “Parks of Tomorrow” – the Idea of Park in the Projects of the Architects of Modernity
• Creator:
  Gielata, Ireneusz
• Description:
  The article discusses the transformations of the idea of park in modernity. In the Age of Enlightenment Europe replaced the white of medieval cathedrals with the green of parks. A man, like Candide from Voltaire’s satire, started to “cultivate his garden,” changing private parks in public spaces. As a consequence of that process the idea of park as a place where you could experience beauty and pleasure completely “vanished”. Urban green spaces started to be determined by an efficacy parameter – which can be witnessed in Le Corbusier’s or Ebenezer Howard’s projects – thus opening the way for transforming former landscape parks into modern places of consumption: commercial parks and amusement parks.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
• Date:
  2018.06.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies]; Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): Park: Space and Metaphor. Presentations: Natalia Malek; 55-69;
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2018): Park. Przestrzeń i metafora. Prezentacje: Natalia Malek; 55-69;
  2353-0928;
  2084-0772
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8647/6661
• Subject:
  park;
  Voltaire;
  Candide;
  modernity;
  consumption
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8647
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text