The Garden of Babylon. Part One: The City in the Countryside. The Death of Great Pan. Far from Eden. From Creation to Nature. The war against nature. Nature is man. II The City. The era of contradiction. From the city to the urban agglomeration. The suburb. The city dweller isolated from the cosmos. The city and freedom. III Surface and Point. The Province. IV The countryside. The country. The man of the country. Lament for my country. Part Two: Towards the Total City. The urban explosion.
The urban front. A flood of petroleum. II The costs of Megalopolis. Scarcity through abundance. The threat of ischemic stroke. III The birth of the rural suburb. The Plan and the countryside. IV Aspects of the new garden suburb of Greater Paris.
The end of the landscape. The end of the peasantry. Rural France faces its own end. Nature as Culture. The feeling of nature, a sign of contradiction. The song of the bucolic dreamers. II Playing at being Indians. The children of the Sun. Love for the primitive. The intellectual and the noble savage. III Weekend Pagans. Back-to-nature myths: the myth of the island.
From the Garden of Eden to the national park. Fishing with live bait. IV Views of the sea and the mountains. Views of the sea. Views of the mountains. From nature to anti-nature. How, as a reaction against organization, the feeling of nature leads back to organization. Artificial paradises. II The suburb of leisure. An infernal Eden. Venice with makeup. The trout and the oxygen level. III Large-scale planning and green spaces. The Megalopolis of the Sea. The engulfed cathedral.
Producing nature. VI The failure of the back-to-nature revolt. The failure of individual escapism. The failure of back-to-nature communities. Towards a consciousness of nature. For a defense of nature. Publisher Details. In this text he attempted to establish the basis for a Federation of the Friends of Nature, whose statutes were included at the end of the text. The outbreak of the war ruined any hopes for this project, and it was during the solitude of those years that he returned to the text, which he completed in βunder the title, Pan Is Dying βwith a phenomenology of the city and the countryside that would become the first part of The Garden of Babylon , published twenty-five years later by Gallimard.
