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Globalisation trends in Russian landscape architecture
(St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University Publishing House, 2007)
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 ...
'As good as the West' : two paradoxes of globalisation and landscape architecture in St. Petersburg
(European Council Of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), 2009)
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 ...
Nature conservation strategies : urban design with ecological priorities
(Guild of Professionals in the Landscape Industry., 2009)
Compared to many countries, New Zealand’s Low Impact Urban Design and Development programme is unique because in the last 150 years New Zealand’s landscape has been dramatically modified. Thousands of species of plants ...
Native gardens as a new page in the nature conservation policy of New Zealand
(Guild of Professionals in the Landscape Industry., 2009)
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 ...
Landscapes of Japan in the globalization era
(Guild of Professionals in the Landscape Industry., 2009)
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 ...
Park "Millennium"
(Guild of Professionals in the Landscape Industry., 2008)
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 ...
Man and nature: common priorities
(Guild of Professionals in the Landscape Industry, 2008)
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 ...
Managing & designing stress, disturbance & succession of urban wastelands for biodiversity
The main goals of the workshop were to identify ways in which ecology and design can be successfully integrated and to determine future research and teaching directions in urban ecology and ecological design. Now more than ...