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Landscape Review
ISSN 1173-3853 · Lincoln University · 322 articles in the index
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Garden as Education: Learning the ‘Old Ways’ of Traditional Mediterranean Food Practices
A former red-brick housing commission house in the bay-side suburbs ofMelbourne has been transformed by Mark Dymiotis to replicate traditional villageMediterranean practices of his heritage. For many years, people have come into thegarden through the Council of Adult Education and the Open Garden…
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Architects and Garden Suburbs: The Politics of Melbourne’s Interwar Suburban Landscapes
This paper charts how architects, conservative businessmen and conservative politicians helped develop Melbourne’s interwar garden suburbs. It maps the ways in which architects transformed these suburban landscapes into highly charged political symbols that supported the values of the conservative…
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Garden Streetscapes: Front Yards as Territorial Confi gurations
Too often, we assume great streets are defi ned by great buildings. Yet manystreetscapes distinguish themselves by the presence of fl ower or vegetable gardens, front yards or backyards, allotment gardens, community playing fi elds or parks.Gardens, as a substantial element of low-density (and even…
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The Sitio Roberto Burle Marx: A Case Study in the Garden as Scientific Laboratory or Vegetal Studio for a Moving Work of Art?
The garden is a place of experimentation, where gardeners try out plants and both see how they grow and explore how to use them to eff ect, but does that make the garden a ‘laboratory’?Roberio Dias (2008) has described the Sitio Roberto Burle Marx (Roberto BurleMarx personal garden and nursery…
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Garden as 1:1: Between Paper Thinking and Earth Moving in Landscape Architectural Learning
Decisions about design are invariably decisions about materials (Temple, 2011,p 50).Design education seeks to mimic the design process in landscape architectural practice. Yet the educational process is fundamentally different because design ideas are rarely tested through building. Student…
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Haptic and Olfactory Experiences of the Perth Foreshore: Case Studies in Sensory History
The liminal zone where a city meets ‘the water’s edge’ is a place of heightened sensory experiences. In Australia, these settings have been continually reshaped and experienced, individually and collectively, both before and after European settlement, and so they provide a physical domain for…