Introduction Part I: Historical Contributions of Gardens to City Life Gardens and Garden life in Pompeii in the First Century AD Gardens of Luoyang: The Refinements of a City Culture Urban Gardens in Ming Jiangnan: Insights from the Essays of Wang Shizhen Genoese Gardens: Between Pleasure and Politics Royal Gardens and City Life in Paris (1643-1789) Garden Sociability in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul Biedermeier Gardens in Vienna and the Self-fashioning of Middle-class Identities The Shanghai Gardens in Transition from the Concessions to the Present Times Parks, Parkways, and Suburban Communities: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Modern Metropolis Part II: Gardens in Modern Cities Swedish Mid-Century Utopia: Park Design as a Tool for Society Improvements Cities in the Garden: American New Towns and Landscape Planning Marrakech: An Ecological Miracle and its Wanton Destruction (1071-2000 AD ) Gardens as Cultural Memory in Suzhou, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries The Promenades and Public Parks of Tokyo: A Tradition Permanently Reinvented Ecological and Socioeconomic Dimensions of Homegardens of Kerala, India Contributors Index.