The recently established, demonstration native garden in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens is a response to the need to show, at a practical scale, how we can step up a level in the range of indigenous species that are ...

Park "Millennium" became a real pearl in the necklace of the shore green zone of Chicago. A crucial year for the city was 1997, when the Mayor of Chicago Richard Daily took a decision to construct a park that was to play ...

Globalisation in Russia is seen today as the spread of Western economic, political and cultural principles in all spheres of life. Russia had a very long history of borrowing architectural garden design and horticultural ...

The conference, Urban Biodiversity and Design: Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in Towns and Cities, was held at Erfurt, Germany, in May 2008. It attracted 400 participants from 50 countries, including ...

In our everyday city life we constantly come across numerous elements that are typical of globalization. Popular hotel chains like Hilton or Holiday-Inn encircle all large cities of the world, or branch systems of brand-name ...

Ecopolis is based on the idea of a coherent evolution of the biosphere and mankind in terms of dynamics, introducing a new holistic and interdisciplinary approach to city planning and design. This paper looks at two ...

One of the challenges of contemporary landscape architecture is the globalisation of place. Nowhere is the threat of homogenisation more apparent than in places vulnerable to change, where the potential loss of heritage fabric ...

Colonial cities have remarkable similarities in their urban biotopes and landscape designs. The similar urban planning principles, landscape architectural styles, urban construction, and planting designs have produced an ...

This paper outlines the roles that ecological concepts and the practice of landscape design have in achieving sustainable and healthy cities of the future. This approach is embodied in the Low Impact Urban Design and ...