Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
Valaam Island on Lake Ladoga is the location of the Orthodox Valaam Monastery. Due to the creation of alleys and gardens carefully cultivated by the monks, many non-endemic trees and plants acclimatized successfully. As a result, Valaam’s largely man-made environment is today considered to be one of the most dense and diverse biospheres in Europe.
An examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in US history.
This book tells the stories of urban do-it-yourself activists contesting conventional conditions of production and consumption through urban gardening sites, open repair workshops, fab labs, and share-and-swap events.
By bringing people together in collective gardening initiatives aimed at utilizing public space for the enjoyment of nature and the production of food, urban gardeners actively take part in local political decision-making processes.
Ron Finley recounts his experiences planting vegetable gardens in unexpected places in South Central Los Angeles.
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.
This article investigates how plants are supported by systems of ethno-political, military, and neoliberal power in urban Pakistan.
