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    Australia is the perfect setting for landscape photography. Australian landscape photography can capture the setting sun over the plains, a sunrise over the ocean or the wonder of the Australian outback. You can find a wide range of portraits of Australia and all its wonders to enjoy from anywhere in the world online. Visiting Australia through Photos Australian landscape photography is a wonderful way to visit the country from the comfort of home. You don't have to visit Australia to enjoy its

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    Ridding The American Landscape Of Lawn In Will Yandik’s article, “Riding The American Landscape Of lawn,” he attempts to persuade his readers that lawns are outdated and need revamped due to their effect on the environment. Yandik writes about “chemical pollution and runoff, a voracious appetite for water, mowers that belch hydrocarbons,” (Will 539) all of which have been documented for. Yandik struggles with “the aesthetic problem with the lawn is that it allows no room for innovation, growth

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    PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE. The relationship existing between society, land and landscape is complex. People's attitudes continuously reflect in their behavior, notably patterns of consumption via existing recreational activities, as well as in their expressed preferences. Society attaches great significance to land. As evident in the movie Midnight in Paris, Gil Pender an American Screenwriter falls in love with the Paris landscape while he visits his fiancée

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    Perry Newton Student # 000-00 1818 Geog 222 Section (1) Mrs Sandra Burrows Date: November 4, 2008 The Human Impact on Coastal Landscape The relationship between humans and their environment is a topic that engenders much debate. Humans are intellectual. They can think, reason, feel and make deductions or hypothesis and seek to solve or prove their deductions or theories. The environment on the other hand is inanimate and exists by means of natural laws and principles that govern the universe

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    Why is research an integral part of landscape architecture? This semester we tried to learn and discuss the influence of research work in landscape architecture design. Landscape architecture is becoming more and more important in people’s daily life today and it is essential for us to have a good awareness of how research work would affect landscape architecture design. I will illustrate this point from three parts: (1) why is research an integral part of landscape architecture? (2) what roles do it

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    Did modernism ignore Landscape Architecture? Modernism landscape architecture is known as either a style or a movement in the arts, which has a main purpose to depart traditional forms to modern ideas. It begins, on the 18th century. Moving on, based on the Modernism, comes the Contemporary landscape architecture, which is more likely as an expression of an idea that is more considered as a need and not as an architectural style. Contemporary architecture as told before, is not a style but most

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    compare and contrast the landscape of the urban area of the City of Brighton and Hove and the rural area of the District of Wealden, which are both located in East Sussex County, England. Compare and Contrast Two Areas of the Sussex Landscape-Urban Area of Brighton and Hove City and the Rural Country Side of the District of Wealden There is an impressively wide spectrum of divergence within the sheer nature of certain landscape entities. For some landscape entities there is a greater

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    Casson Landscape Analysis

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    One could suggest many of the buildings and villages Casson painted represent people’s encroachment on the landscape. Or, one could also suggest, Casson was capturing the rural village life on the edge of Toronto’s city life. By 1930’s Casson was turning away from painting “wilderness” and “landscape” paintings that were empty of the human presence. He was returning to his interest in capturing intriguing architecture and the play of light and shadow using the structural elements of buildings. Casson’s

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    -The Chinese term for "landscape" is made up of two characters meaning "mountains and water." It is linked with the philosophy of Daoism, which emphasizes harmony with the natural world. Khan -By the late Tang dynasty, landscape painting had evolved into an independent genre that embodied the universal longing of cultivated men to escape their quotidian world to commune with nature. Such images also convey specific social, philosophical, or political convictions. During the early Song dynasty, visions

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    Three years ago, if someone asks me if I want to be a Landscape Architect, I would say No, I don’t even know what Landscape Architecture is. If anyone asks me the same question today, my answer is I don’t know what else I can be, other than a Landscape Architect. In my last year of L.Arch Undergraduate program, I started to think of what my future plan is, and what I want to achieve in my life in Landscape Architecture. I realized I have goals which can be achieved and dreams that can only be achieved

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