Download or read book The Venetian City Garden written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the development of the "landscape idea", no city played such an important role as did Venice. From about one hundred city gardens, squares, and courtyards, public parks and temporary gardens, the book develops a typology of gardens in a densely built environment that is permeated with history.