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Showing 1 to 20 of 480 for “"gardens"”.
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Growing Gardens: Botanical Gardens, Public Space and Conservation
<p>This thesis examines the history of botanical gardens and their evolution </p> <p>from ancient spaces to the modern gardens of the 20th century. I provide a brief </p> <p>overview of botanical gardens, with a focus on the unique intersection of public </p> <p>participation and scientific study …
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Pleasure Gardens
… of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and reinvention in fantastical form. There is no attempt in these paintings to …
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Gardens of resistance
… actors as they reclaim the Complex's Mughal Gardens - landscapes historically seen as spaces of utopic experimentation and speculation - as spaces of their own resistance. Considering the architectural tools of process, scale, materiality, and temporality, the actors strive to re-inscribe an …
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The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens: Poems
The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens is a book of poems in five sections. The first, third, and fifth sections present a speaker navigating a wondrous and often hostile world. The second and fourth sections are long poems: "Zodiac B," a sequence inspired by obsolete or forgotten constellations, and …
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Ethnicity, Nature, and Community Gardens
… and design of New York City (NYC)’s community gardens, and how the social processes that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the theoretical perspectives …
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Keeping Gardens: Poetry and Essay
This creative thesis includes two creative non-fiction essays and twenty-two poems, introduced by a critical essay that examines my work. The poems and essays share an origin in personal experience as well as an interest in language. Specifically, the poems and essays explore issues of family, …
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Spatial sequence in the historic gardens
… classic landscapes (Korean temples, Mughul gardens in Kashmir and Italian villas) have been examined. Classic landscapes have developed elaborate sequential patterns to achieve certain experiences and effects. Especially, the spatial sequence of classic formal landscapes is designed to be …
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Gardens of the Restoration: a new approach to establishing the Englishness of gardens in England 1660-1680
… from exile in 1660 did not necessarily all build gardens inspired by their experience of continental gardens. Four case studies are used to test this idea. The thesis puts forwarda new approach to identifying English garden style. By analyzing contemporary garden treatises, writings and visual …
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Making Community Gardens Thrive: A Systematic Study of Factors Affecting the Development of Community Gardens in Greater Victoria
Community gardens around the world are increasingly recognized by the governments and the public for their socio-cultural and ecological benefits. They face a broad range of challenges, including land access, volunteer management, resources, and funding. By adopting the framework of agency and …
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens
… explanations have tended to the view that the gardens were designed to recapitulate Virgil’s Aeneid. However, the garden owner, Henry Hoare II, left no record to substantiate this, or any other theme, and it is not mentioned in the many extant visitor accounts from the eighteenth and …
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School Gardens: Raising Environmental Awareness in Children
<p>This paper explores the reasons for gardens and natural spaces on school campuses and the effects that such exposure to the natural world has on the students. Blending case studies, observational data and personal experience, the paper discusses the impacts a garden has on the students who …
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Mechanics of seed-grown planar chemical gardens
… structures he reported are known as "chemical gardens" -- self-assembled semi-permeable precipitates. They are considered laboratory analogues of hydrothermal vents that are thought to be where biological life on Earth self-assembled and originated. In this thesis, in Chapter 1, a review of …
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The Bronze Age Gardens Of The Aegean In The Context Of Contemporary Gardens In The Near East And Egypt
… analyze the form, content, and purpose of Aegean gardens in the Bronze Age using the available evidence from the Aegean islands, and interpreting this evidence through the lens of known gardens in the contemporary cultures of the Near East and Egypt. It argues that Aegean gardens, like the gardens …
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The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead
… garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies the modes of resistance and ecological ethics of Silko’s counternarratives to Western thought paradigms. Silko’s fiction is often characterized as apocalyptically violent, and the goal of …
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The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead
… garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies the modes of resistance and ecological ethics of Silko’s counternarratives to Western thought paradigms. Silko’s fiction is often characterized as apocalyptically violent, and the goal of …
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The language of gardens: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s barzakh, the courtyard gardens of the Alhambra, and the production of sacred space
… of space by focussing on the courtyard gardens of the Alhambra. By presenting a theoretical conversation on the Sufi notion of the barzakh (an intermediary and relational space) between the premodern Muslim mystic Ibn al-Arabi and contemporary western theorists concerned with space, …
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From Garbage to Gardens: Urban Agriculture in Mexico City
… and observe the impact community urban gardens have on the surrounding community (multipliers). Many governments, including Mexico City's, are introducing institutional and other policy changes that recognize, manage and promote urban agriculture. This study looked at urban agriculture …
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