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City In A Garden
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Author : Andrew M. Busch
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-05-16
City In A Garden written by Andrew M. Busch and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Social Science categories.
The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.
Living In A Garden
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Author : Timothy Auger
language : en
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Release Date : 2013
Living In A Garden written by Timothy Auger and has been published by Editions Didier Millet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Nature categories.
In June 1963, Singapore’s prime minister planted a tree to mark the beginning of a sustained campaign to enhance the city state’s appearance. No one could have anticipated the transformation that followed. This is the story of that process. Now, 50 years later, highly urbanized Singapore enjoys a green network of nature reserves, large and small parks, tree-lined streets and community gardens that is the envy of other big cities. Singapore has had to make tough decisions. Land is scarce. There are trade-offs between maintaining the island’s rich, natural biodiversity and public demands for housing and infrastructure appropriate to the 21st century. Nevertheless, the National Parks Board, and its partners in the public, private and civic sectors, continue to strive to keep Singapore green. Lavishly illustrated, the book shows how Singapore aims to be a ‘City in a Garden’, reminding us that the community must engage with the greening ‘mission’, if this great achievement is to continue.
The City In A Garden
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Author : Julia Sniderman Bachrach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The City In A Garden written by Julia Sniderman Bachrach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
Gardens, in the form of parks, grew hand in hand with the pioneer town of Chicago. Before the skyscrapers, or the expositions, Chicago's parks suggested a worldly sophistication not usually associated with a boomtown.
The Urban Garden City
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Author : Sandrine Glatron
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-24
The Urban Garden City written by Sandrine Glatron and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-24 with Science categories.
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic and social shape, and assets of our cities, and are increasingly becoming valued as an ‘order’ to follow. Gardens have long been part of the development of cities, serving different purposes through the ages: shaping neighborhoods to promote health or hygiene, introducing aesthetic or biological elements, gathering the citizens around a social purpose, and providing food and diversity in times of crisis. Highlighting examples that can serve as the basis for comparisons, the chapters offer a brief panorama of experiences and models of gardens in the city – in the European context and in various periods of history – while also discussing issues related to garden cities, urban agriculture and community gardens. The contributors are university staff from various disciplines in the human and life sciences, in discourse with other academics but also with practitioners who are interested in experiences with urban gardens and in promoting an awareness of their spatial, social and ‘philosophical’ goals throughout history. The book will appeal to urban geographers, sociologists and historians, but also to urban ecologists dealing with ecosystem services, biodiversity and sustainable development in cities. From a more operational standpoint, landscape planners and architects are sure to find many of the projects enlightening and inspirational.
Singapore City Of Gardens
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Author : William Warren
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-27
Singapore City Of Gardens written by William Warren and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Travel categories.
Although best known as a sprawling metropolis, most visitors to Singapore marvel at the greenness of it all. Wide boulevards shaded by venerable Rain Trees, interconnecting parks displaying a huge variety of tropical plants, roadside plantings in every shade of green, red and yellow, and great expanses of junglescape alongside the office skyscrapers and apartment blocks. It is truly a garden city, in all senses of the word. In this travel pictorial, the authors showcase many of the Lion City's green spaces, be they the Botanical Gardens and national parks, or plantings of bougainvillea tumbling down the crash–barriers on the super–highways. Orchard Road, the world–renowned Zoological Gardens, the ground–breaking Mandai Orchid Gardens, and many more, are portrayed, along with other lesser–known parks and private and hotel gardens. Sumptuous full–colour photographs by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni and texts by botanical expert William Warren literally take one down the garden path on a discovery tour of Singapore's cityscapes, landscapes, hardscapes and few remaining "wild–scapes."
Garden City Mega City
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Author : Patrick Bingham-Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Garden City Mega City written by Patrick Bingham-Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Architecture, Modern categories.
tête-bêche Book. One half depicts the mega city problems, but when the book is flipped over, the other half provides the garden city solutions.Packed with photographs, diagrams, and colourful info-graphics, Garden City Mega City presents a compelling case for re-examining and re-planning the mega cities of the 21st century.
Celebrating Our City In Nature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Celebrating Our City In Nature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biodiversity categories.
The City In A Garden
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Author : John Mark Hansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The City In A Garden written by John Mark Hansen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) categories.
Garden Cities In Theory And Practice
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Author : Alfred Richard Sennett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
Garden Cities In Theory And Practice written by Alfred Richard Sennett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with City planning categories.
The Garden City
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Author : Stephen Victor Ward
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1992
The Garden City written by Stephen Victor Ward and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Garden cities categories.
A critical and scholarly examination of the origins, implementation, international transference and adaptation of the garden city idea and a consideration of its continuing relevance in the late 20th and 21st centuries.