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Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France

 Subject

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Forest rides in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1870, c.1914

 Item — Openshelf 5.21/PC6/1: Series Coll-1167/A
Identifier: Coll-1167/A/5/8
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a plan of the Bois de Boulogne park reduced from a larger map. Shows the sets of radiating forest rides. Extract from Geddes, P., Cities in Evolution (1946) reads "What now of the radiating plan so dear to modern French architects?. Note here the obvious illustration of its origin in the forest rides laid out for the safety, convenience & pleasure of the hunt."

Dates: c.1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / The Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions / Renaissance Cities