This issue is the first of two in which ‘place’ is approached as a ‘scale of study.’ In these works of analysis and research on ‘place,’ we delve into the history of places that were built with living beings. Their changing condition defines them, and includes a vast universe of places that, according to their time and culture, have received different names: gardens, orchards, parks, groves, plots, avenues, green infrastructure, and still others named them hueyi tecpan, yuan, you, teien and bageecha.