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Recent history is, for garden and park visitors, a much less happy one.43 Providing open spaces was – unlike education, libraries or social services – never a statutory duty imposed on local authorities by law. When governments in the last quarter of the twentieth century and especially since 2010 started to try to cut public expenditure, they

Roderick Floud • An Economic History of the English Garden

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In summary, the key Geddesian impulses that still deserve further attention in the contemporary context of sustainable development are: the bioregional planning approach that integrates ecological, socio-cultural and economical considerations at a regional scale; the emphasis on transdisciplinary education as a prerequisite for informed civic... See more

Daniel Christian Wahl • Design and Planning for People in Place: Sir Patrick Geddes (1854–1932) and the Emergence of…

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Lara Vesta • Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal & Rebirth

A focus on ‘missing middle’ housing: The plans feature housing that is fairly high density but not high rise — a combination of "row houses" between 2-4 stories high, and apartment buildings going up to 8 stories. This is the type of neighborhood that makes up the most beloved places in the world. Places like Amsterdam, Venice, Santa Monica, Lake... See more

Devon Zuegel • Part 3: The first walkable city in America in a century

I have spent most of my professional life working in the Fens, excavating sites in a landscape that has changed beyond recognition over the past four centuries, when wholesale drainage converted a complex network of shallow lakes, slow-flowing rivers, marshy meadows and lush willow and alder woodland into a series of huge rectangular arable fields

Francis Pryor • Scenes From Prehistoric Life

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The excess clauses are sometimes replanted or grafted nearby, not disposed of entirely.

Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

Apart from the work of Ellis Stones and Edna Walling, there was practically no original landscaping in Australia before the late 1950s except for that of Burley Griffin and the pre-First World War Guilfoyle, who was responsible for the Royal Botanic Gardens. There was, however, a growing awareness of Australia's indigenous flora, but the practice... See more