Stephen Hitchins traces the life of the late pioneering landscape architect Carol Johnson, and considers her impact on the contemporary green regeneration of central Paris
‘WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS.’ Tat Casablanca quote certainly never left the late pioneer of landscape architecture, Carol Johnson. Once she finished studying English at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, it was the Palace of Versailles that captured her imagination as she cycled around Europe in the early 1950s, soaking up landscapes in France, Ireland and England. Yet, along with most other big cities around the world, Paris has been gone for some time, cut off by the closure of theatres, museums and restaurants, the riverboats, the pavement terraces, its nightlife curtailed by a
