Conserving the Spirit of a Historic Garden: The Florence Charter on Historic Gardens, Interpreted, Expanded, Adapted and Illustrated in the Indian Context
Gardens as an expression of human relationships with nature have also been an articulation of the culture of the people, the place and the time. The Indian landscape has a very rich garden design tradition wherein gardens wove their way into urban, suburban and rural landscapes imparting them with many secular and sacred meanings. In giving meaning to human existence they enriched peoples lives by providing a deep and inspirational sense of a much needed bond between human beings and nature. As a very vulnerable part of our heritage, today very few of these gardens survive. Since these gardens are continuously being embedded in new contexts and facing new challenges, the narrative of their conservation has to be spelt out against the larger fabric of development of the area where they b...
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