Episode 78: Gareth Doherty on Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves

Episode 78: Gareth Doherty on Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves

Author: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies November 16, 2025 Duration: 31:24
Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and an affiliate at the Department of African and African American Studies, discusses his most recent book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design. He tells us a fascinating story about the secret gardens, islands of green, that he wrote about in the chapter "Gathering Leaves: Urban Ecologies of Afro-Brazilian Sacred Groves.

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