The thermal comfort in the green space of Lisbon : the gardens of the Gulbenkian foundation
This work aimed to analyse the influence of the green space on the urban thermal comfort and to know the microclimatic differentiation of the garden in fonction of the type of vegetation, topography, buildings, etc.
Japanese garden plants in residential yards in Honolulu, Hawaii : a transported landscape
Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Garden ; Hawaii ; Japaneses ; Landscape
and Oriental hawthorn. Styles transported included grouped rocks, stone lanterns and neatly trimmed shrubs. Such features usually made up a small part of the entire garden of Hawaiian Japanese-Americans, but they were frequent enough to suggest a display
The original garden cities in Britain and the garden city ideal in Finland in Issue dedicated by the Geographical Society of Finland to Professor Leo Aario on his 80th birthday, 26th November 1986.
Urban perennials : how diversification has created a sustainable community garden movement in the United States
Community ; Garden ; Gardening ; Kansas ; Motivation ; New York State ; Participation ; Social capital ; Social geography ; Sustainable development ; Texas ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Vegetables
Through the examples of the community gardens in Brooklyn, Manhattan (Kansas) and Austin, this article analyses their current state and how its historical roots shaped its response to current policy concerns. It then examines which populations
comprise today’s community gardeners and what motivates them to participate. It concludes by positing that a greater diversity of gardeners and gardening motivations, accompanied by changing leading views on urban land uses, will lead to such urban gardens
That'lt be like a blush-rose when tha' grows up, my little lass: English cultural and gendered identity in The Secret Garden
Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; England ; Garden ; Gender difference ; Semiotics of space ; Social class ; United Kingdom
Feminist geographers are now engaging with the gender implications of landscape representation. In this paper, the multiple significances of the garden in F.H. Burnett (1911) children's story The Secret Garden are explored. Using an approach
Community ; Cuba ; Discourse ; Ecology ; Fruit ; Garden ; Habana ; José Martí ; Political geography ; Political party ; Role of the State ; Sustainable development ; Urban area ; Vegetables ; environmental discourse ; ideology ; sustainability
; urban gardens
This article explores the relationship between sustainability discourse and its local dimensions to reveal the role of sustainability in the reformulation of the Revolution. Urban gardeners engage with international discourses of sustainability
and interact with the Cuban state's articulation of these discourses. While this process forces urban gardeners to adapt to the changing meanings of growing food, it also provides a different language through which gardeners define themselves, especially
Practicing GIS as mixed method : affordances and limitations in an urban gardening study
Gardening ; Geographic research ; Geographical information system ; Indiana ; Neighbourhood ; Positionality ; Research ; Subjectivity ; United States of America
This article examines the affordances and limitations of GIS practicing as a mixed method in an urban gardening study. It traces how qualitative GIS methods uniquely enable multiple narratives to change the ways in which GIS is practiced
. To illustrate this process, it presents findings from the use of qualitative GIS to study urban gardening in Muncie, Indiana, a postindustrial, Midwestern city.
Nature displaced, nature displayed : order and beauty in botanical gardens
Botanical garden ; Cultural landscape ; Identity ; Landscape ; Landscape esthetics ; Perception ; Place ; United Kingdom
Botanical gardens displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Through a study of three botanical gardens, belonging to the University
Political gardening in a post-disaster city : lessons from New Orleans
Community ; Food ; Garden ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Project ; Social geography ; Social justice ; United States of America
The study examines the ways in which various gardening projects in New Orleans exhibit different levels and scopes of political engagement, with a particular focus on how they manifest (sometimes in contradictory ways) in the projects’ missions
and practices. By highlighting the ever-shifting social, economic, and political context of the post-disaster recovery, this article illustrates how urban gardening is inherently political, but cautions that the extent to which gardening can subvert social
injustice in the city may be limited the emergence of urban gardening activities in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The agricultural utility of lithic-mulch gardens: past and present
This paper will critique the effectiveness of lithic-mulch agriculture by comparing contemporary lithic mulch experiments with prehistoric pebble mulch gardens in the Galisteo Basin, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Of particular interest