Arcadia
The Trees of Tavrichesky Garden: Forgotten Actors in the Politics of Cultural Landscape
This case in St. Petersburg, Russia, proves vegetation to be an actor in state politics of cultural landscapes.
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Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century
Excerpt from Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century.
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“Radical Stories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Emergent Ecologies’ Challenges to Colonial Narratives and Western Epistemologies”
On the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, 1913, and the different stories it conveyed.
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Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity
Excerpt from Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity by Bernd Brunner.
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“Roots through Asphalt: A Conversation with Sonja Dümpelmann”
In this Springs article, landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann and Rachel Carson Center editor Pauline Kargruber discuss plants in an urban environment.
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“Walking, Drawing, Designing: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Drawing Stick and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardens”
An article on the methods of German landscape gardener Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823).