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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...