Urban Green Areas – their functions under a changing lifestyle of ...
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Picture 2.4: Hang Dau garden<br />
Picture 2.5: Bach Thao<br />
(own pictures, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, 2011) (own pictures, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, 2011)<br />
Picture 2.6: Thong Nhat park<br />
(own pictures, taken in Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi, 2012)<br />
2.1.5 Summary<br />
Gardens and parks have a long history. In ancient time, the meaning <strong>of</strong> garden (ancient<br />
Egypt garden, Chinese garden) is as a work <strong>of</strong> art owned and used by the rulers. Parks and<br />
gardens first started to open to the public in the kingdom <strong>of</strong> Persia.<br />
In the early Christian era, gardens and parks lost <strong>their</strong> importance along with the decline <strong>of</strong><br />
the powerful cultures (e.g. ancient Egypt, Greece and Persia).<br />
By the time <strong>of</strong> the Renaissance, new gardens and parks were being built again again. Parks<br />
and gardens developed as artistic compositions with cultural and religious features<br />
borrowed from many different countries. The common characteristic <strong>of</strong> the gardens in this<br />
period are <strong>their</strong> strictly symmetrical structure in which harmony <strong>of</strong> the arrangement <strong>of</strong> the<br />
details is being aimed for. The best-known example here is the Versailles garden in France.<br />
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