The gardens of industrialization: an example of symbolic colonization of the territory

• Autores: Pere Casas Trabal, Jordi Grané Casellas
• Localización: Revista d'etnologia de Catalunya, ISSN 1132-6581, Nº. 40, 2015, págs. 107-113
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the late 19th and early 20th centuries nature was reappraised. It was a time when conservationist ideas took shape and nature became an element representing balance, rationality and morality compared with the cluttered, dense and depraved city. These were the years when, for example, nature became important in education, the first hiking centers were founded, garden city projects were devised and urban parks emerged in big cities. There is no doubt that all these movements would have an impact on new urban development projects and a significant influence on the new designs for workers� settlements which were being set up on a mass scale along Catalonia�s rivers, especially the Ter and the Llobregat. In �Gardens of Industrialization� we have examined 15 gardens, observing nearly a thousand examples and more than a hundred different species. This volume and density prove the existence of a rich vegetation heritage while also showing how the advent of factories on the banks of the Ter involved not only a physical occupation of the land but also its symbolic occupation.