Acknowledgments

Introduction

Rupture and reconciliation

History as a source of meaning

Immersive explorations

Travel guide

1. Agricultural cities from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries)

The Lyon countryside and the horizon of the city walls

From rural fields to urban fields

Enclosed urban gardens

In the vegetable gardens of townhouses

The food and economic contribution of the vegetable garden

An ensory garden

A detour to the imaginary Abbey of St. Gall

Checkpoint

2. Cities and their market garden belts from the Grand Siècle to the Enlightenment (17th–18th Centuries)

The market garden belt of Paris

The atmosphere of the streets and markets

The need for market gardeners-waste collectors

Agricultural experiments in the gardens of aristocratic mansions

The artificialization and control of nature

The food and economic functions of the bourgeois garden

A detour to the Kitchen Garden of the King at Versailles

Checkpoint

3. The first distinctions during the Industrial Revolution (19th Century)

Urban markets and the presence of animals

The rise of the market gardener-waste collector

Resort living and urban parks

In industrial neighborhoods, where people “live in the factory”

In workers’ allotment gardens

A detour through Howard’s garden city theory

Checkpoint

4. The rupture between cities and agriculture (20th Century)

The urbanization of the Lyon countryside during the Interwar Period

Affordable housing and allotments

Farming for survival during World War II

The Glorious Thirty or the break between cities and agriculture

Large housing estates and their proximity to agriculture

A detour to Le Corbusier’s Village Radieux

Checkpoint

Conclusion

Food, economic, and social values

Sensitive and imaginary values

From break to renewal

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