Csepely-Knorr Luca: Barren Places to Public Spaces. A History of Publick Park Design in Budapest 1867-1914 (Budapest, 2016)
Contents
Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 THE BEGINNINGS - THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF PESTBUDA AND THEIR PUBLIC GREEN SPACES PRIOR TO THE UNIFICATION ................ 9 Public green spaces in Buda before 1873 ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Public green spaces in Pest before 1873 ............................................................................................................................................. 13 A city centre without trees: Palatine Joseph, János Hild and the Embellishment Committee .......................................................................... 19 The Embellishment of the capital - The role of green spaces in the writings of Count István Széchenyi .......................................................... 25 PUBLIC PARKS AND PUBLIC PARK DESIGN IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY ........................................................................ 27 The effect of the changing use of public spaces on public park design ..................................................................................................... 27 Stylistic precedents for Hungarian public park design .......................................................................................................................... 28 A short overview of the evolution of public park design ........................................................................................................................ 29 Changes in the social role of gardening and the evolution of the institutionalised system in the 19th century .................................................. 44 PUBLIC PARK DESIGN IN BUDAPEST DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY ........................................................................ 47 The role of green spaces in urban plans and projects at the time of the city unification .............................................................................. 47 Green spaces in the main urban development projects .......................................................................................................................... 49 The green belt around Pest ........................................................................................................................................................ 49 The city and its river-embankments and bridges .......................................................................................................................... 50 Market squares become green spaces ........................................................................................................................................... 70 The main thoroughfares and their green areas ............................................................................................................................... 81 Small squares in the city centre ................................................................................................................................................... 90 The development of Kossuth Square ............................................................................................................................................. 97 The development of Szabadság Square ........................................................................................................................................ 103 The main public parks designed in the dualist period .......................................................................................................................... 109 Népliget Park ........................................................................................................................................................................ 109 Gellért Hill and its surroundings ................................................................................................................................................ 119 Concepts for a National Monument ........................................................................................................................................ 119 The Palm Garden on Gellért Hill ............................................................................................................................................. 126 The beginning ofthe landscaping of Gellért Hill ........................................................................................................................ 129 AN APPRAISAL OF PUBLIC PARK DESIGN IN BUDAPEST AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY ................................................................ 144 APPENDIX.............................................................................................................................................................................................146 Notes ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 146 Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................................................................. 151 Biographies ............................................................................................................................................................................... 152 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................................................................... 154 Index ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 158
