Central Michigan University's glacial park : instruction through landscaping
With the aid of earthmoving equipment, the university campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA, has created a landscaped park of sculpted landforms that morphologically resemble drumlins, moraines, eskers, and kames. This park is used as an easily
User reactions to a visitor distribution programme in Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
Canada ; Exploitation ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Killarney Park ; Ontario ; Parc naturel
Afin d'éviter la surexploitation des parcs régionaux, plusieurs régies publiques de parcs ont mis en place des politiques de quotas et de dissuasion. Tel est le cas du Killarney Park, fondé en 1964, en Ontario. (ALS).
Industrial parks in Romania's towns. Present-day trends
The Industrial Parks Programme elaborated by the Romanian Government and implemented in 2002 was aimed at improving the business milieu by developing and updating the physical infrastructure, and stimulate Romanian and foreign investment of capital
. The aim was to shift industry from centre to periphery. However, industrial parks are not a salvage solution for all declining economic areas forcibly industrialised in the past, because whatever budgetary funds are earmarked, it is crucial that thses
économiques spéciales en Corée du Sud (B.-G. Park).
Quatre articles. 1. Aux confins de l'Asie du Sud-Ouest : géographie de la Guerre Froide et construction de l'autre (J. Glassman). 2. Espaces et territorialités à la frontière sino-birmane : la Chine, la Birmanie et les Kachin (K. Dean). 3. La
Compares temperatures on five different surfaces - natural grass, bare ground, gravel parking lot, concrete sidewalk and blacktop parking lot. Discussion of purpose, intent, instruments and results. - (DWG)
Forderung des Umweltbewusstseins durch die Gestaltung eines Freizeit-und Erholungsparkes in einer sozialistischen Stadt. (Promoting environment-mindedness by laying out a recreation park in a socialist city)
Garden city ; Green space ; Leisure ; Singapore ; Urban environment ; Urban park ; Urbanism
Compared to the American and English park movement, the development of parks in Singapore has a relatively short history, beginning only in the 1960s. It calls attention to one major dynamic: its development has grown out of an effort to solve
the problems arising from the twin processes of industrialisation and urbanisation. The A. examines the trajectory of park development, identifying the main phases and factors in its development.