Garden city movement

Commercial farming increased in the late 1960s and 1970s due to the government policy and funding supports (see Fig-2) but the total number of farms continued to decline. By the turn of the century less than 600 farms remained, drastically reduced from the 1950s (Statistics Canada, 2009), and residents of the province had lost much of their control over what food was produced and under what conditions. As a result, while total provincial revenues from farming are increasing (from approximately 74

his interest in art and architecture, especially in horticulture and the Timurid gardens in Samarkand and Herat. He was also familiar with Persian culture and literature which was evident in his memoirs, the Babur-Nama. The relations between the Safavids and the Mughals were furthermore strengthened with Babur’s hiring of Persian artists and craftsmen, and after

I've chosen to write about the artwork In Magnolia Gardens by Alfred Hutty. It is an oil on canvas piece. The piece is approximately medium to large portrait. In Magnolia Gardens was created in 1945, a response to a time right after World War 1, where many people in Charleston were in despondency and poor, the rise of tourism benefited them greatly. I selected this work because it has bright but at the same time dark imagery, giving it a majestic but haunting piece of work. I will describe the

is common to many adjacent regions. One solution is to improve on alternative production processes such as Urban Agriculture (UA) which until recently has been associated with cities in developing countries. However, “recent concerns about economic and food security have resulted in a growing movement to produce food in cities of developed countries including the United States.”(Lovell 2010) “With the growing interest in urban agriculture in the U.S., the American Planning Association (APA) has recently

donating his home to the city of Tulsa in 1938 to become a hidden gem in the city. This home was a valuable place for art to be stored and adored by many from across the nation. The Philbrook Museum of Art has become the hidden gem it was meant to be for Tulsa by helping spread its love and knowledge of art in its many forms to others. The Philbrook Museum of Art was once the home of Waite Phillips, a successful oilman, who later donated his Italian Villa influenced home to the city of Tulsa in 1938.

Disrupted and Diluted It seems the south Brooklyn neighborhood known as Carroll Gardens is a victim of its own success. For the better part of the 20th century, this small neighborhood community, which is partly framed by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Gowanus canal, was populated by working class Italian immigrants and their families who created a rich Italian American imprint on the area. Working class Italian immigrants made the move to South Brooklyn after the opening of the

need to approve the building of my garden with the principal of the school I plan to involve in this project. There is not much high tech equipment needed for this project; however, I will need to use a garden hose, a garden hoe, and small gardening shovels. After getting approval and equipment together I will need to gather my resources including wood, dirt, a variety of plants, and peat. Then in the spring the garden will be created. First, the raised garden boxes will be constructed, filled with

of physical representations, including geographical indicators which can be both static and dynamic. In Wilde’s fairy tales, the most frequently appeared element in the physical space tends to be the majestic and luxurious places like a palace, a garden, and a plaza, as well as the plain and unattractive

rise. Industrialism is social or economic system built on manufacturing industries. This pulled people further from nature and into cities and towns. When Wordsworth wrote “Ode to duty” in 1808 industrialism was also very prevalent and people stopped farming and instead worked in factories. Shelley and Wordsworth identified as Romantics. Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual

It is difficult to picture a city or town without a park or a playground for everyone to enjoy free of charge. This thought is not as far fetched, as some might believe. The massive movement for communities to provide public lands for relaxation, leisure and play has its roots in the Progressive Reforms around the turn of the twentieth century. The congestion of urban centers and the fading concept of child labor creates unintended consequences such as an increase in crime, lack of natural landscape