Badiane, Thiaw and Deme treat green space as urban heritage rather than as a contemporary ecological layer added to the city. Through Place de l’Indépendance, Place de la Nation and the Fann-Hock public garden, the article reconstructs the historical trajectories of landscape planning in Dakar across colonial and postcolonial periods. The iconic contribution is the persistence of function through transformation: emblematic green spaces retain their civic vocation while undergoing degradation, rehabilitation and reinterpretation. This shifts landscape analysis away from a simple opposition between preservation and loss. The methodological operation is historical-spatial reading, connecting urban morphology, public intervention and cultural continuity. Its wider bridge is to heritage studies: green infrastructure acquires memory, political genealogy and civic symbolism. The paper demonstrates that an urban ecological asset may also be an archive of planning regimes, public identities and changing conceptions of collective wellbeing.
URBANISM MEETS ART