O roślinnej historii miasta z perspektywy jego mieszkańca
The Plant History of the City as Seen by an Inhabitant

Summary/Abstract: Based on the work of contemporary autobiographical fiction by Claude Eveno, Alexandre Lacroix and Philippe Vasset, Zgoła reads the plant history of Paris as seen by its inhabitants. She examines the cultural agency of the city’s flora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a historical and anthropological perspective, and she contextualizes her analysis with theoretical concepts developed by Gilles Clément (the third landscape), Peter del Tredici (cosmopolitan urban meadow) and Bradley L. Garrett (urban exploration). Tracing the role of socially sanctioned forms of organizing urban green spaces as well as related vernacular and experimental practices, Zgoła shows how different types of interaction with the botanic environment go hand in hand with a separate repertoire of urban practices as well as literary ways of representing them.

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