The Urban Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Urban Garden write by Kathy Jentz. This book was released on 2022-04-12. The Urban Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "101 creative and inspiring ideas to grow edible and decorative plants in urban environments"--
One Little Lot
One Little Lot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Little Lot write by Diane C. Mullen. This book was released on 2020-03-03. One Little Lot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a bustling, urban neighborhood, count the ways one little lot becomes a beautiful community vegetable garden. Count all the ways (one to ten) an urban community unites to clean up an abandoned lot. From building planter boxes to pulling weeds to planting seeds, everyone works together to transform the lot into a bountiful vegetable garden. As the garden grows, strangers become friends, eventually sharing in a special feast with the harvest they grew.
The Urban Garden City
The Urban Garden City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Urban Garden City write by Sandrine Glatron. This book was released on 2018-03-24. The Urban Garden City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Urban Flowers
Urban Flowers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Flowers write by Carolyn Dunster. This book was released on 2017-04-06. Urban Flowers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Creating colour and interest in a small urban garden by growing a range of flowers and other decorative plants brings with it many rewards. Carolyn Dunster shows you what to grow and how to use your own blooms, leaves and berries in a range of indoor displays and hand-tied bouquets. Locally-grown flowers in season is a significant and welcome trend in floristry, and just as eating a tasteless strawberry in December pricks our consciences, so too does purchasing a bouquet of tulips in September, however stunning they may be to look at. The most local, seasonal flowers, which are the most satisfying to give and to display, are the ones you have grown yourself. Carolyn Dunster shows you how to do this in the smallest of spaces.
City in a Garden
City in a Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City in a Garden write by Andrew M. Busch. This book was released on 2017-05-16. City in a Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
