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Garden Homesteads As They Were
Originally written Sept. 2011 Most Thursdays, I volunteer at the Jac Smit Urban Agriculture Library at the FoodShare building in Toronto, Ontario. A few weeks ago, I came across a very interesting document. Garden Homesteads for Cuyahoga County, by Bernard S. Edelman (1942), offers a glimpse at a unique suburban planning concept for the region…
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Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Introduction In the summer of 2009, I traveled to Mongolia to visit my partner who was involved in research and teaching in Ulaanbaatar. For two weeks we spent some time in the city but mostly traveled the countryside. It is a fascinating country with sharp contrasts between old and new, rural and urban. This paper…
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landscape architecture | landscape urbanism
Introduction Landscape urbanism, an emerging concept, is a theory of urban planning and design based on ideals found in disciplines such as ecology, landscape architecture, engineering, and systems theory. It is generally defined as the theory and practice of using landscape—as opposed to architecture—as the medium for structuring the built environment. Further, it seeks to…