Phd progress Cities, Europe, scenario's

Did you miss my writings, yesterday? After I had made my self some delicieus pancakes,I went off for a walk. I heard a lot of frogs, along the road. After two hours I felt a fatigue. I even started thinking doom. Maybe, these two are related? In the time going by I wanted to pay some attention to my own desire for tenderness.
And, now, today, here I am again. My dear unknowns. Ready to explore the plants and the cities.

Where did I leave you. I know, scenario thinking about cities in Europe. Which cities to choose?

Scenario one: A diagonal line through Europe from South-West to North-East
Scenario two:  A diagonal line through Europe from Sout-East to North-West
Scenario three: Following the 50 degree meridian
Scenario four: Drawing a circle around Europe
Scenario five: In which cities are the newest variations on 'green'?
Scenario six: Which cities make the most money out of 'green'?
Scenario seven: Which cities have green political parties in the cityboard?
Scenario eight: Which cities have not been written in history, yet? (Which cities are not great?)
Scenario nine:  Thinking green myself, to which cities can I go by bike? (Fun thinking)
Scenario ten: Quantative investigation. How many cities are in Europe, followers by a countdown

Work to do!

I start with scenario nine, because it appeals the most to me. And I have been to a lot of cities in Europe already. So, to go there again, is a little bit boring, don't you think?

What did I decide on to put in front?
The political, the linguistic, the spatial.
Selection criterium nr. One: diversity

Candidate cities:
The city of Groningen, the city of Assen and the city of Emmen.

Please, read on, for further arguments.

The city of Groningen, today, has as many citizens as the city of Amsterdam, a hundred years ago. It is said to be a nice, beautiful, golden, city
The city of Assen has an almost anarchic board.  They call the,themselves liberal, but there are not. It is, really, an ugly city.
The city of Emmen is larger than Assen, smaller than Groningen. It has a zoo, though. The board of the city of Emmen still agrees on keeping animals imprisoned. The city of Emmen is the greenest city of the Netherlands, according to University of Wageningen research, (square meter green rankings), 2015
City nr. 4 and 5? Maybe, when I have time left.

PhD progress Cities, Europe

Title: Bad, ugly, green, professionals, cities, Europe

Green, meaning the plants, vegetation, trees etc.

Cities.
It is impossible, even for me, to do research on all the cities in Europe. I have three more years to go. The professor and I agreed on that, last January.

Which arguments do I need to introduce, to select, in a week time, three or four cities.

Political correct argument anno 2015 in the Netherlands is 'diversity'.

Diversity? On scale, on age, on geographical siting, on economical situation, language, spatial patterns, on green, on professionals, on beauty (tourist visitor figure), on 'bad' (criminal activities). These are the relevant topics for my research. Is it complete? Did I not mention an important issue, like 'frist things first', probably also typical European.

Where to begin? (Scenario thinking)

Scenario one.

Suppose Lisbon is a city candidate, because it is a city in Europe, timed in the early modern world, containing professionals with a pioneering spirit. 'Only in the seventeenth century, with the increasing exodus of New Christian merchant families, was it overtaken by Amsterdam and London' ( J.J Norwich ed., M. Newitt, The great cities in history, (2009) p.156-158. Personally, when I look at the plan of Lisbon (16th century, Civitates Orbis Terrarum) in this book, something really intriges me. I do not know what exactly, but I feel a need to find out.

When I have enough arguments to choose Lisbon, all other coastel cities in West Europe can be excluded. Question is, can all southern cities be excluded as well? The consequence will be to draw a diagonal line from south-west to the north-east of Europe.

I hear my stomach. I take some time out. See you soon......

PhD progress Perfect counterparts, scenario's

The worktitle 'good, bad, ugly', is derived from the title of the film 'the good, the bad, the ugly', directed by Sergio Leone, in the beginning of the sixties, twentieth century. The film has been categorized as a Western, a spaghetti western, if you please. The main characters are men. The plot is to find the pot of gold. This gold is buried somewhere. In the beginning only one person knows where. This person is about to die. Angel eyes (Mr. Bad,  most of us presume) shoots this one with the money knowledge to death, after having extracted information from him. The presumed Good, sometimes almost femininely shot ( an expression used by filmers) also finds the place of gold, with the little help of Mr. Ugly. So far the front 'office'. As a back 'office' , the civil war in the States has been pictured. A desert, some wooden houses, a bridge, village people, horses, guns, mountains, hardly water,  a Father, a woman, and a lot of war men.

So far this script. 1961, Italian director, American actors, location shots in Spain. The money grail.

Why on earth did I selected this script out if the million of scripts passing by and celebrated in Cannes (South of France), every year again?
I do not know precisely, but by doing history now, I am trying to find out.

Does green has anything to do with pink? With purple? With blue? With red and white? With grey?
The writer of The pink pagode....... introduced thirtysix scenario's. Easily interpretated as a patriarchic (or is it patriarchale?) approach.  Isn't it? PABO pappa? (just Dutch kidding). It seems not done in doing history to have pink glasses on. But really, isn't it all in the game?

At least, I am not going to avoid complexity. I am not going to keep it simple. For the one and only
reason: it isn't simple. So, I am not going to pretend it is. Clear cut.

What I learned from doing history nowadays, it is all about facts. As a former math girl, I definitely have a way with that. But, math people are also aiming at the perfect match. Which, in history has another meaning. What is perfect to do in history is to take a look at the other side as well. To counter.

So, there are the subject and objects and there are the coutersubject and counterobjects. Therefore, because I am doing history, implicates this. In the meantime I feel the need to schorten my worktitle. In doing history, naming Good, implies also to study Bad. What to do with Ugly, then? To go ahead with countering, I may be better name it Beauty. Beauty, now, will attract more persons curious to my future writings and Beauty is the counter of Ugly. Isn't it? (Reasonable doubt)

What is it going to be? (Scenario thinking)
Good, Ugly
Good, Beauty
Bad, Ugly
Bad, Beauty

As I will procede in my next blog.

PhD progress Choices

PhD worktitle: Good, bad, ugly
PhD subject: Green, professionals and the city
Field: History
Time demarcation: 1800-1810, 1900-1910, 2000-2010
Space demarcation: Europe

In front: the political, the linguistic, the spatial
In back: the social, the technical, the economical, the material, the visual, the biological

Questions
How come some professionals think there is not enough green in the city.
How come some professionals think the city is green enough
How come some professionals do not think of green at all?
How come there is a growing amount of attention on green and the city, today?

Intellectual framework, under consideration
1. G.E. Andela, J.E. Bosma, Groene stedebouw 1900-2000,( 2006), p.582-598, Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000, ed. J.E. Bosma, A. Mekking, K. Ottenheym, A. van der Woud
2. M. Niemi, Politicians, professionals and publics: conflicts over green space in Helsinki, C. 1950-2000, (2006), p.207-228, The European city and green space, ed. P. Clark.
3. U.N., W.C.E.D report, 'Our common future', chapter nine ' The urban challenge', (1989).

Notes about accesibility of the to be chosen literature
1. In Dutch, printed published, text not available on internet
2. In English, printed published, text not available on internet
3. In English, text available on internet

PhD progress History, we have a problem

 In written thinking on the subject of 'green', meaning plants, vegetation, there is a serious historical problem

Is there any political writing on thinking 'green', thinking 'plants', thinking 'vegetation' ?
Are there any philosophical writings on the same thinking?
Has any biologist ever written on this subject of thinking?

Suppose, my subject in this historical research is head of this. What would that mean for doing history? For the historical research method?

No more intellectual frameworks?

Fortunately for me, when I was attending my first symposium in the field of history, september 2012, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. All invited speakers were sixty years of age or older. They agreed on one thing. They said to us, a much younger audience: 'Don't do the same as we did'.


Uh?

Meaning what?

Subjects?
Time demarcations?
Space demarcations?
Method, perhaps?


Nobody paid attention at this, then. But now, I think it is becoming important. To change the way history is done or written.

PhD progress Green thinking

I know, yesterday I promised to shine my light on the writings and sayings of Peter Sloterdijk.

 I changed my mind.
But you are free to view the Peter Sloterdijk youtubes yourselves. I can say it is entertaining. I think of Peter as a nice person to listen to.

When the subject of my PhD is green, outdoor space and cities in Europe. I have to start to investigate 'green thinking'. Not meaning 'sustainable ' or 'environmental' thinking, but ' plant ' thinking, or 'vegetation' thinking or in a way 'flora' thinking.

Well, has anybody in the past done such a thing?

PhD progress What kind of historian do I want to be?

PhD title: Good, bad, ugly
PhD working subject: Green, architecture, cities.
Field : History
Time demarcations: Beginning of nineteenth century, beginning of twentieth century, beginning of twenty-first century.
Space demarcation: Europe


For writing history on an academic level one is expected to follow four phases:
1. Prepare
2. Structure
3. Formulate
4. Make corrections

I am in phase one, at the beginning of phase two and I am trying a bit of phase three and four.
Right now, I am collecting information with which I can create my 'strars'. Green 'stars' as you would have understood by now or you will understand in time.
As soon as the 'stars' are made visible by me, it shall be possible to create 'stripes' between the 'stars'.
A 'Mijnske history universe' will be visible by then.
On top of this I have a warning. The ones who are afraid of space, of hights and or depths, should make sure they are prepared to dive or to fly before taking action. Reading all my stuff. One can also any time decide to stay on shore. You will be able to see the reflections of the 'stars and stripes' in the water. We are all free persons. And for the technically focussed humen I have the following advice:
try to find the on and off button as soon as possible.
You know what is good for you.

Phase two. The PhD writings has to contain approximately eighty thousand words.
This can be structured by chapters, aimed result: a printed book.
This can be structured by blogs, aimed result: readers all over the world, knowledge spread

What do I do, preparing?
1. I think and blog about the function, the aim and the target group.
2. I have chosen a relevant subject.
3. I am trying to formulate the central question. One I want to find answers for. Therefor I have to study literature to check if I can sustain my question.
4. I am looking for relevant information by reading literature, finding sources and interviewing.
Source: www.taalwinkel.nl    www.taalwinkel.nl

Well, I didn't answer the question 'What kind of historian do I want to be?', by now, did I?
I'll give it a try.
I do like to do all the points written above. What about my focus?
The subjects I am interested in have a broad spectrum. Most of them occur in contemporary times as well in times gone by. Today, and for more than four years already, I am very interested in the 'green' issue. It seems to concern us all, in the end. Add to this that I have been gifted with spatial capabilities, since I was ten. A talent not everybody is lucky to have inherited. I also have a talent for detecting beautiful, ugly and mediocre things. When one is not that esthetical like I am, my experience is that it is really hard to 'meet'. I also have a talent to absord loads and loads of information. Like a sponge. I need a lot of 'water'. My aim in life is to share this talents of mine with as much others as possible. Now, I think I am more talented than skilled at the moment. For writing
history one needs to be quite skilled and have a lot of energy as well. For being quite neutral a person, I hardly favour anything. So what Else to do? I had to find my rage ( thank you, Peter). It was quite hard for me to find my rage, my energy ( I looked at a few Peter Sloterdijk youtubes yesterday evening). I did find my rage, though, it is called 'injustice'.

I sincerely hope you have a little patience with me. I am trying with ups and downs to improve my writing skills, making my way into history. At the same time I really like to receive compliments. Please do not confuse compliments with complaints. I hate complaints.

And now and then I really like an intellectual challenge.......
I'll discuss 'Mensenpark', written by Peter Sloterdijk, 2000, next time.

PhD progress Green architecture, where and what, images

In March and April 2014, I have systemstically searched on the internet via Google, looking for images. I found about fifty realised buildings, worldwide. In the Netherlands I found twent- six. About fifty percent of the total amount of buildings. What is going on in the Netherlands?

Are the Netherlands not green enough?
Are the Netherlands so desirably green, people / the public want to keep it that way?
Are there so many clients wanting a green covered or clad building?
Has green architecture become an instrument for city or regional marketing?
Is there a watermanagement or a heat problem in the cities?
Are other buildings too ugly, the public and or the clients say: no more!
Is it one of the many creative outcomes of the minds of architects?


A selection if the images will be published soon on this very blogspot page.

PhD progress Definitions

PhD worktitle: Good, bad and ugly
PhD work subject: Green, architecture, cities, Europe
Green in the meaning of the plants, vegetation, nature even, on a theoretical level
Field: History
Time: 1800-2010

What is green architecture?

I found one definition, I shall quote and I derived two other definitions from more basic definitions in the field of urbanism and art. Since 2014 there is a definition on Wikipedia.
It took me quite some time, to find definitions. Apparently, it is not quite common to define architecture in the field of history. I think it is necessary though, when acting and writing on an academic, scholarly, scientific level.

First definition.
The term 'environmental architecture' may then be used to refer to those architectures which represent a sustainable operation aesthetically. Architectures for which the expression of a co- operatieve between  architecture and nature is as important as its enactment.
S.Hagan, Taking shape. A new contract between architecture and nature, 2001

Second definition.
Green architecture is a thinking and acting proces which is accomplished by designing floors, walls and roofs and by choosing materials, so a building clad with vegetation can be made. Whether a
building is named architecture, depends on a varied number of valueing persons and factors.

Inspired by:G.M. Andela,  J.E. Bosma, Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000, 2007.Chapter: 1900-2000 Groene stedebouwkunde, p.582. Original text in Dutch. 'De stedebouwkunde is een denk- en handelswijze die bestuurlijk handelen, procedures en vormconcepten ontwikkelt voor de exploitatie en inrichting van de aardbodem.'
Translated by me: 'Urbanism is a thinking and acting proces, which develops
governmental acting, processes and concepts of shapes, for the exploitation and to furniture the surface of planet Earth. Also inspired by prof. dr. K. Zijlmans, when discussing the difference
between architecture and building, October 2012, at the VU Amsterdam.

Third definition
Green architecture is architecture where green has a central position.
Inspired by K. Zijlmans ed., World art studies, 2012, chapter Green art, p....

Fourth definition by B. Ingels, architect, Denmark, 2010
'Architecture is a fascinating, well-made building'

PhD progress Green, the little plants or flora?

PhD working title: Good, bad and ugly
PhD working subject: Green, architecture, green architecture
Field: History
Time: -2010

A thought / word experiment.
The more I read, the more problems I get with the word 'green'. It is used in so many and multiple ways.
The more I become an academic historian, the more I long for a choice of words which are to depict more precisely what I can survey, study and write about.
The more I mail with my promotor, the more critical I become.

Where has my head, my knowledge, my language been all this time? Why has there never been  a person like this before, to feed me with the real thing? Except for Mrs. de Wit, off course, my former teacher classical languages at the gymnasium of RSG Schoonoord, Zeist, the Netherlands.
And I am so hungry. I was almost starving to death. ( I am a little dramatic, you will get to know me in time)

For instance, the word 'green'. Almost all of us know it as a colour. A colour of material things, in general, living materials (ooooh, it moves! dear architects) included. So, let's keep it simpel, because life is complicated enough already. Deal?

So, suppose, we all agree on this. We do have something in common, now. The language challenge has been overcome.
But what about the urban challenge? ' The green urban challenge', as named in chapter nine, UN report 'Our common future', published 1989? Only twentysix years ago, you remember? It is
available on internet, for free.

Green? The little plants? Just the plants?
You cannot hear these words, but they can be spoken of as something minor. Something one can hardly believe in. Or when one talks to technical educated people, mostly of the male side of life, the
answer is,: ' Plants? That's what my wife takes care of!'
Or.
Is it about the plants, about the vegetation? What about it? There is enough of it, isn't it?

These people do not share the partizanen approach, dear Andreas and Bart. And they are right as well, are they not? These are good people, too. Europeans.( This is meant, lightly provocotive). Maybe they are even your neighbours, not at work I mean, at home I mean, or in church or at the gym or even at the sportsgrounds or in the singing choir or in your private club.
Did Mark Rutte ever speak highly of living material? He likes to fly to the Big Apple, that is what I know. Or any other politician on the right, left or in the middle? Angela Merkel? Obama? Poetin?

Did you know, a tree is a higher plant, according to biologists? And did you know the amount of biologists has been grown substantially, since the seventies of the twentieth century, in Europe? Do you know any micro biologists in your circle of friends or on Facebook? I guess there are far more microbiologists than historians. This I do not know for sure, I have to verify this.
Mijnske, work to do!( this is my dialogue interior)
But, if this is true, than biologists are very well capable of proofing their societal value and they must be very well capable of getting paid for it, somehow. As biologists must be some sort of homo economicus as well.

There are lower and higher plants and plants in between. Algeae, grasses, mosses, vegetables, bushes and trees. The tree is the highest plant. Well, you knew that, didn't you.

I do have one problem with the word 'plant', I cannot pronounce it easily. I do not like the word 'plant' as a sound. I have a physical and an acoustic problem with the word. So, taking in consideration, my lip disability and my sound sensitivity, I like to introduce the word 'flora' in this place. In this in
between of popular and academic writing place, in this blog. How about this?

The word 'flora' has two meanings:
1. The flora of a demarcated area is the inventory of plants which live in this area.
2. A book in which all plants living in a demarcated area, are written of.
(Source: E.J. Weeda, R. Westra, Ch. Westra, T. Westra, Nederlandse oecologische flora. Wilde planten en hun relaties 1, 1985, p.5

Hmmmm. Inventory? Book? Writings?
This reminds me of doing history.
Remarkable.

PhD progress Back to The green history of.....

The day before yesterday and even yesterday, I was studying the article 'Het groene verleden van de industriële stad. Wortels en bloei van het historisch onderzoek naar de stedelijke groenruimte in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw'. Published in Stadsgeschiedenis (2012) nr.1, p. 96-112. Authors: Andreas Stynen, Bart Tritsmans.
Title in English: ' The green past of the industrial city. Roots and rise of historical research on urban green spaces in the nineteenth and twentieth century.'

My notes ( Yes, I sometimes loosen up a little, or academically spoken, 'What a loose way to study!',

P.Clark. 'There has been only a limited discussion on the evolution of urban green space as a whole.'
Why I noted this? I like to do it all. In other words 'It os all in the game.' Meaning, the game of knowledge. I like the whole. So, here is some work for me to do!

M. Melosi. 'To contextualize the citybuilding proces is to take into account natural as well as human inputs and outputs constraining choice and intent.'
Why I noted this? There is very little, actually none, literature, historically on an academic level on green architecture. And I do like this, for I am the only one, it discriminaties me. At the same time, I do not like it at all, because, I, like a building in a city, do not stand alone. That is a fact. And above all, without space, without the so called empty context, we are not able to see any building. And our 'sight' is still very important by studying architecture/ fascinating buildings.

R. Williams (1973), Ideas of Nature, ' Vooral met The country and the city, gaf hij aan hoe de historische verhoudingen van stad en natuur/platteland enerzijds en het denken over die relatie anderzijds in een dynamisch proces stonden. Zijn perceptie ( dat is nogal wat, he Koos, wij historici nemen waar, geloof het of niet) van natuur en cultuur, van platteland en stad als dialectisch gerelateerde constructies ( engineering in history?!) en niet als stabiele entiteiten, betekende een doorbraak.
Why I noted this? To realise, what only recentelijk had been thought, has aged already. At least, for me. According to physic laws, everything is dynamic, even a stone, because it is made of by atoms. However, I don't know, for a moment, in which year the physicians agreed on this knowledge, this approach. I read CHOAS! By James Gleick, when I was a student at Delft University (1984-1992). At that time, in my studenthouse, I was the only one to understand. Read: to take an effort to read, recalculate, imagine, verify and read on till the end.

Language use on Green and Space in the article byAndreas and Bart:
Groenruimtes
groenzones
green space
groen
stedelijke
stedelijk groen
Sport, recreation and  green space
Built and natural elements
Stedelijke natuur
Stadsgroen
Natuurlijke stad
Grossstadt Grun
Natuurlijke landschapselementen
Het maaiveld
Het veld van de stadsgeschiedenis
Stedelijke omgeving
Natuur
Ecologie
Environmental
Agro-ecologische benadering
Stedelijke context
Nature, not the non human sphere
Nature's metropolis
Bebouwde omgeving
Stad en natuur
Natuurlijke landschappen
Natuurbegrip
Natuurbeleving
Natuurbeelden
Greening of the city
Stadsnatuur
Stedelijke realiteit
Landelijke verbeelding
Stedelijke leefwereld
Groenvoorziening
Stadsparken
Parkgedachte
Pretparken
National parks
Industrieparken
Parkbeweging
Stadsruimtes
Boulevard
Met bomenrijen omzoomde verkeersas
Wandelplek
Singelpark
Bouwstenen van de eigentijdse stad
Wandelvoorzieningen
Natuurlijke element
Promenade
Botanische tuinen
Stedelijk weefsel
Verkeersinfarct
Stedelijke verkeersader
Groen vormgegeven
Gepercipieerde ruimtes
Stedelijke vergroening
Stadsbestaan
Bewust aangeplant stadsgroen
Openbare parken
Groene verkeersassen
Straatbomen
Straatgroen
Vergroeningsstrategie
Grote plantentuinen
Commerciële pleziertuinen
Private tuinen
Kamerplanten
Genderpatronen in de parkbeleving
Gemeenschapsvorming bij het tuinieren
Sierteeltexposities
Groeninspecteur
Groenaanbod
Natuurbegrippen
Stadsgroen visies
Groenonderhoud
Verlangen om de natuur te beheersen
Openbare groenvoorziening
Privaat groenbezit
Restgroen
Aanplantingen
Specifieke groenruimtes
Wildernis

PhD progress. Intermezzo Thoughts about intellectual framework

Updated, 13 May 2015

PhD work title: The good, the bad and the ugly.
PhD work subject: Green architecture in European cities
Field: history
Time: till 2010

Intermezzo.

Early wednesday mourning, re-Thinking about the requested intellectual framework, this is option twentyfive.

Literature, proposal

1. P. Sloterdijk, regels voor het mensenpark, 2000

2. G.M. Andela, J.E. Bosma, Groene stedebouw 1900-2000, Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000, p.582-598, 2006
(green urbanism, urban history)

3. D.A. Reeder, London and green space, 1850-2000, p.30-40, The European City and Green Space, 2006 (urban history)

4. S. Hagan, Ethics and environmental design, p.65-75, Taking shape, 2001. ( architecture theory)

5. W. Szymborska, Zo is het genoeg. De laatste gedichten, 2013.
(Original language Polish, 2012, translated in Dutch by K. Lesman)
( title in English: This is enough   or  Now it is enough  or   Sufficiently it is       The last poems.
you choose or translate by yourself or ask a Dutch  or Belgian friend, whatever)

Argunents!?

First I tried to verify the date of writings by Reeder. Well, he passed away in 2005. So, when did he write this Introduction in the book, The European City and Green Space, edited by P.Clark? I checkend the internet, could not find a list of Reeder's published, written historical research. I have to ask Peter someday.
On my way of looking for information about Reeder's writing activities, I found an interesting text, written by D. M. Pallister, in The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, volume I 600-1540, 2000: 'However, we (we?) have also tried to avoid the excesses of some recent scholarship which is concerned so exclusively with people and places as to exclude the old (old?)  constitutional approach altogether. It is not possible (not?) to make sense (sense?) of medieval towns without considering their government and institutions, their customs (customs!) and by- laws. Boroughs, charters and guilds (guilds!) should not be excluded by the new urban history.'
Well, this is coming up with arguments! Making up arguments is still one of my soft spots, I need to work one, wanting to become a dr. History. Do you realise what a nice, fine moment of learning I went through, yesterday?!

Okay, arguments, let's try it

1. P.Sloterdijk, Het Mensenpark, 2000.

Off course, on  a European scale some German thinking cannot be excluded. Peter Sloterdijk was the number one on my original list of literature! With Sferen, another book. I am very curious how the writings in Mensenpark will relate to  my subject of green architecture. Without doubt, Peter Sloterdijk is the intellectual person in Europe now. It would be stupid to exclude his writings, his thoughts.
I am looking for some French intellect, but I only found a gardener with a lot of practical skills. Premier Hollande declared la France green, only just this spring 2015. My research is demarcated till
2010. So Hollande was too late, to become part of the coming of the first green architecture history.
I did read in Green philosophy. A serious way to think about the planet, written by Roger Scruton, another philosophical work. But I can't take the word Green seriously, anymore, since I became aknowledged with the fact that, beyond the fact the green is the name of a colour we almost all learned in grammar school or at home. Green, today, in discours, writings and using language, is mainly used for campaigning, selling and getting attention.
So I hope you can understand now, that I can.t take the writings of Roger Scruton seriously.

PhD progress Organizing the dates derived from The green past of the industrial city, Bouwen in Nederland, The European City and Green Sp

green history, Europe, cities, urban, flora, environment

A list of the historians, the time of publishing, subject of publication. Completed 12 May 2015

1966.   G.F. Chadwick,    the park, the public, the social, the political

1973.   R. Williams,    nature, the natural
1977.   U.C. Knoepflmacher, J.B. Tennison,  nature, the natural, imagination
1978.   D. Hennebo,    the tree
1979.   I.C. Laurie,    the material, typographical, cities

1981.   G. Andela,    the park, the public

1990.   M. van Rooijen,    urban green
1991.   H. Conway,    the social, the park/ people
1993.   H.W. Lawrence,    city trees, greening squares
1997.   E. de Jong, C. Steenbergen, E. van der Vlist,    the park, the public
1997.   N.H. Dreher,     moral panics, parks

2000.   M.Swyngedouw, M. Kaika,    the environmental, urbanization
2001.   B. Landau, C. Monod, E. Lohr,    le boulevard
2001.   A. Lelarge,    le promenade
2001.   J.A. Tarr,    politics, the political
2001.   T. Longstaffe- Gowan,    geography
2001.   S. Texier,    parks, jardins
2004.   J. Staes e.a.,    vijf eeuwen plantkunde/ five centuries of flora knowledge
2004.   F. Uekotter,    the social (affective)
2005.   E. de Vos,    planning, the public, parks
2005.   G. Andela,    the social, the political
2005.   A. Gugliotta,    the environmental
2005.   D. Rabreau, S. Pascalin,    la nature, le promenade
2006.   H.W. Lawrence,    geographicalh
2006.   J.E. Bosma,    Groene stedenbouw, green urbanism (green planning+design)
2006.  U. Strohmacher,    geography, nature, parks, urban design, civic space
2006.   P. Clark, J. Juhiainen, M. Niemi, J. Niemeli,    concept of green space, sports, recreation
2006.  Edited by P. Clark: D.A. Reeder, London and green space 1850-2000,  D.A. Reeder, London, green space, the social. L. Nilsson, green space, Stockholm. C. Nolin, Stockholm, urban parks, social contexts 1860-1930. M.Deland, Stockholm, the social park 1900-1939. L.Nilsson, S.Burch, Stockholm style, model city and parks 1930s-1960s. P.Schantz, questioning Nordic national urban parks. P.clark, M.Hietala, Green space, Helsinki 1850-2000. K.Lento, nature, city, green space, Helsinki 1917-60. M. Niemi, green space, conflicts, Helsinki c.1950-2000. N. Lipsanen, green space, Uutela case, Helsinki, c. 2000. B. Anan'ich, A. Kobak, green space, St.Petersburg 1850-2000. K. Semenov, parks, gardens, St.Petersburg 1850-1917. A. Kitaev, green space, red parks, Leningrad 1917 -1990
2006.   A. Stynen,    culture
2007.   G. Massard-Guilbaud, P. Thorsheim,    the environmental, cities
2007.   L. Turcot,    le promeneur
2009.   M.Melosi,   humans, cities, nature
2009.   J. de Bruyn, M. van Acker,    de singel, ringruimte
2009.   K. Hebbelink.   over F.E. Keilig, stadspark, citypark

2011.   R.S. Hopkins,    urban green space, conflicts
2011.   A. Lelarge,    demolition
2011.   B. Tritsmans,    city
2011.   G. Andela,    J.T.P. Bijhouwer, landschapsarchitect / landscape architect
2012.   T. Longstaffe- Gowan,    square, city garden
2012.   J. Conlon,    pleasure Gardens
2012.   J. van Maelle,   the political, fights (conflicts), greening

Literature
1. A. Stynen, B. Tritsmans, Het groene verleden van de industriele stad, Stadsgeschiedenis (2012) nr.1, 96-112
2. J.E. Bosma, Groene stedenbouw, Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000 (2006), 582-598
3. P. Clark, editor, The European City and Green Space. London, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, 1850-2000, 2006, historical urban studies

PhD progress. Reading The green past of the industrial city

Including first corrections, 11 May 2015
Reading The geen past of the industrial city. Roots and rise of historical research on urban green space in the nineteenth and twentieth century by Andreas Stynen and Bart Tritsmans, published in Stadsgeschiedenis (2012) nr.1, 96-112
Original title (in Dutch/ Belgian): Het groene verleden van de industriële stad. Wortels en bloei van het historisch onderzoek naar de stedelijke groenruimte in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.

So whom or which organisations in Europe have researched and been writing on green & the city? In what year and in which field? According to  this article by Andreas and Bart.
I left out the Americans. There were no Africans, Asians , Arab nor Russian historians mentioned.

A list.
European Commission, 2009, politics
L Boudry, 2003, politics
P.Clark, J.Juhianen, M.Niemi, J.Niemeli, 2006, history, concept of green space, sports, recreation
M.Melosi, 1993, 2009, history, the material, cities, nature
M.Swyngedouw, M.Kaika, 2000, history, the environmental, urbanization
A. Stynen, 2006, history, culture
B.Tritsmans, 2011, history, city
J.A.Tarr, 1994, 2001, history, policies/ the political
I.C.Laurie, 1979, history, the material, typographical, cities
G.Massard-Guilbaud, P.Thorsheim, 2007, history, the environmental, cities
F.Uekotter, 2004, history, the social (affective)
A.Gugliotta, 2005, history and the environmental
R. Williams, 1973, history and nature/ the natural
U.C. Knoepflmacher, J.B.Tennison, 1977, history and nature/ the natural, imagination
G.F.Chadwick, 1966, history , the park/ the public, social or political?
H.Conway, 1991, history, the park/ the people, social
G. Andela, 1981/2005/2011, history, the park, the public, social or political?/ parks, 'plantsoenen'/ JTPBijhouwer, landschapsarchitect
M.v.Rooijen, 1990, history, urban green

E.de Jong, C.Steenbergen, E. van der Vlist, 1997, the park, the public
A.Lelarge, 2001, 2011, history, le promenade, demolition
B.Landau, C.Monod, E.Lohr, 2001, history, le boulevard
D.Rabreau, S.Pascalin, 2005, history, la nature, le promenade
L.Turcot, 2007, history, le promeneur
J. de Bruyn, M van Acker, 2009, history, de singel/ringruimte
D.Hennebo, 1978, history, the tree

H.W.Lawrence, 1993, 2006, history, city trees/ greening squares/geographical
T. Longstaffe-Gowan, 2001, 2012, geography, London square/ city garden
J.Staes e.a., 2004, history, vijf eeuwen plantkunde
K.Hebbelink, 2009, ..., FE Keilig& stadspark
E. de Vos, 2005, planning, public, parks
J. Conlin, 2012, history, pleasure gardens
U.Stromacher, 2006, geography, nature, parks , urban design, civic space
R.S.Hopkins, 2011, history, urban green space, conflicts
S.Texier, 2001, history, parks, jardins
N.H.Dreher, 1997, history, moral panics, parks
J. van Maelle, 2012, politics, fights& greening

Although it must have been quite an effort. After reading and listing it is not clear to me now. When were the roots and when the rise? Was 1966 the start? What about the historical depth?

Are we still  in the rising period or in the so called green wave? Or has there not been a rising period at all.

Has it been an ongoing business, sometimes visible and sometimes invisible? Sometimes paid attention to by historians, sometimes neglected by the same field of professionals?
Perhaps were their writings read by all sorts of other professionals and given attention to?

I am missing a text written by Koos Bosma in the book Bouwen in Nederland 600-2000. It concerns the chapter Groene Stedebouw (Green urbanism= Green urban planning+design). Wherein Bosma defines urbanism as a craft. Something one think About and act upon. He actually introduces the interaction between the political and the practical.
I am also missing more chapters and authors from the book The European City and Green Space, 2006, edited by P. Clark.

To be continued: A re organization of the dates and more, also their, questions in the next of Mijnske+de stad blogspots

PdD progress. Looking for an appropriate Intellectual framework

In the beginning of my PhD candidate time, I received a copied article by post at my home adress. The sender was my promotor, Koos. It is the only text I could find, he wrote on a note on the side. The article was derived from Stadsgeschiedenis. (2012) nr.1 and contained seventeen pages. The article is written in Dutch, or better in Belgian. Title: ' Het groene verleden van de industriële stad. Wortels en bloei van het historisch onderzoek naar de stedelijke groenruimte in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw.' The writers are Andreas Stynen and Bart Tritsmans. Both men, researchers in Belgium, are no historians. Information I got by Bart in my mailbox. As a reply after I mailed him with some questions.

The first time I read the article, I did not understand a lot if it and my first impression of the article was, it sounds so political. I questioned myself What to do with it? Answering myself by This is not my understanding of science. I reacted with a sort of distaste and disunderstanding. Only later, discussing it, I became aware of the distinguishes between the understanding and practitioning of science and the scholarly, today. In Europe. By European standards.

In the second year of my PhD candidate time, after having chosen for the field of history and not for the field of theory, because I formulated my conclusions as follows: Architecture theory, that is what I can make up my self. And that is exactly the opposite why I wanted to do a PhD. In the meantime I visited several meetings with other PhD candidates, occupied with subjects in the field of history. And that seemed so much more interesting. The final argument for choosing the field of history is the historical method. This method can be described as a three column building without a roof. The columns are round, circular as you see them cut through horizontally. Well said, you might think now, but can you describe it to me in a language more commonly understood?
Sure: literature, sources and interviews. One has to read literature, one has to find sources and one has to question people.

And then you can asked yourself, how much literature? In which language? Written by whom? How many sources? What is a source? Where to go and look for it? Which people? How many questions?

As a person who was trained for more than twentyfive years to think spatial and creative, where crossing the border of reality into the imaginary is an easy thing to do. I suddenly became aware of a mental world in which demarcations were a common thing to do.

You can imagine........weird.

On top of that. After my million google scholar result readings and filteringen, Koos wrote by mail
'Google is not the only source'. I suddenly remembered this article. Fortunately I had archived it
neatly with all my  received post. Then I started to read it for the fourth time, fifth time, now focussing on to whom the writers refer, from whom they had extracted words.

In the next blog, I shall inform you about the content of the article, important for my research. Don't worry. I will report in English.