After I moved in in my current apartment 15 years ago, I planted two vines (Parthenocissus tricuspidata ‘Veitchii’) on either side of my front door, to cover the rather ugly façade of my apartment block. One was weeded out time and again by the parks service, but – since the boundary between two park service departments…
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Interpretation, Measurement, and Evaluation of Spatio-visual Characteristics in Landscape Design Mapping spatio-visual characteristics is important for understanding landscape spaces and crucial for landscape design. Therefore, developing design vocabulary and mapping methods, exploiting the capabilities of modern technology, to describe and interpret spatial and visual properties help spatial designers to achieve a better understanding of landscape…
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Recently, the website nu.nl and the eight o’clock news came with a news item “Urban Farming is growing because of crisis”. A quote from this article: “From lettuce next to an old Amsterdam gas filling station to radish growing out of the fish manure in a Rotterdam shed. A new phenomenon is introduced in the…
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