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Small landscape designs, a premise for urban sustainability
Pedestrian public areas are the structural elements of any built framework, social cohesion areas, areas of coexistence and urban outbreaks designed programmatic to attract all types of audience, to bring together all the citizens of the city and to boost the city’s urban area; in short, showcase of the city. The quality of the urban space is determined primarily by the quality of the public spaces corresponding to the city, the spaces that the city offers for the common use of the inhabitants. This paper refers mainly to the pedestrian traffic areas and those situated in their immediate vicinity with direct connection with the latter, without a precise destination, with a predominant artificial structure and constituent elements (fronts, fencing, flooring, construction, etc.) without volumetric, architectural and special plastics qualities and even completely deconstructed.
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Big ideas for small spaces : creative ideas and 30 projects for balconies, roof gardens, windowsills and terraces
\"Instructions and photographs show how to make 30 easy projects for the garden using inexpensive or found materials. Provides practical solutions to greening a small and otherwise barren area including outer walls, tiny patios, balconies, courtyards, terraces, windowsills and rooftops. Also includes instructions on the basics of gardening\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dla państwa teatr najistotniejszą jest zabawą”: Repertuar teatrów łazienkowskich za panowania Stanisława Augusta
Autor analizuje repertuar scen łazienkowskich (Teatr Mały, Teatr w Pomarańczarni, Teatr na Wyspie) w czasach stanisławowskich, korzystając ze źródeł archiwalnych. Zagadnienie to było już przedmiotem badań historycznoteatralnych, jednak dotychczasowe ustalenia wymagały weryfikacji, a archiwalia ponownej interpretacji. Wśród trzydziestu sześciu tytułów, co do których można mieć przekonanie, że były grane na scenach łazienkowskich, przeważały inscenizacje tak zwanych baletów z akcją. Obok nich często sięgano po francuskie opery komiczne oraz komedie, najczęściej osiemnastowieczne. Wybory repertuarowe stanowiły kompromis pomiędzy królewskimi ambicjami a chęcią przyciągnięcia widzów i zapewnienia im kulturalnej rozrywki, a także potrzebą wykorzystania spektakli do celów politycznych i wizerunkowych.
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Reviews : Last night's TV: Coming up roses
Ever fond of targets and improving things, the government has ambitiously announced that by 2025, everyone in the country will have had their garden made over on television. In Small Town Gardens (BBC2), it was the turn of Mark and Laura from Ripon, North Yorkshire. Out went their straight, dull path, non-descript lawn and scrawny hedges. In came topiary and coping stones, a mosaic walkway, leafy terraces, box hedges and voluptuous roses in raspberry ripple, red and white. The magnolia tree that endured the transformation was joined by obelisks, Victorian railing and geraniums delightfully described as \"sexually repressed pensioners.\"
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Gardener's guide to compact plants : edibles & ornamentals for small-space gardening
Covering a broad array of landscape plants, including edibles, flowering and fruiting trees and shrubs, evergreens, and perennials, horticulturist Jessica Walliser takes a deep dive into the emerging category of compact plants.
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Containing small spaces takes some planning
Transform Your Balcony, Porch or Patio With Fruits, Flowers, Foliage & Herbs (Timber Press), how to bridge the gap.
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Small-scale urban agriculture results in high yields but requires judicious management of inputs to achieve sustainability
A major challenge of the 21st century is to produce more food for a growing population without increasing humanity’s agricultural footprint. Urban food production may help to solve this challenge; however, little research has examined the productivity of urban farming systems. We investigated inputs and produce yields over a 1-y period in 13 small-scale organic farms and gardens in Sydney, Australia. We found mean yields to be 5.94 kg·m−2, around twice the yield of typical Australian commercial vegetable farms. While these systems used land efficiently, economic and emergy (embodied energy) analyses showed they were relatively inefficient in their use of material and labor resources. Benefit-to-cost ratios demonstrated that, on average, the gardens ran at a financial loss and emergy transformity was one to three orders of magnitude greater than many conventional rural farms. Only 14.66% of all inputs were considered “renewable,” resulting in a moderate mean environmental loading ratio (ELR) of 5.82, a value within the range of many conventional farming systems. However, when all nonrenewable inputs capable of being substituted with local renewable inputs were replaced in a hypothetical scenario, the ELR improved markedly to 1.32. These results show that urban agriculture can be highly productive; however, this productivity comes with many trade-offs, and care must be taken to ensure its sustainability.
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