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The last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The
flexibility and new challenges invested in non-permanent landscapes
has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for
professionals and impromptu designers. Raffaella Sini examines the
historical evolution of the genre, exploring theory, narratives,
and strategies informing 80 temporary gardens built in France,
Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium,
Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and the United
States. Key topics include: * temporary gardens in 1970s
avant-garde art and 1980s public art; * temporary gardens as
opportunities to work with live processes, practice inclusion, and
explore concepts of social justice and ecology; * temporary gardens
to redefine the vocabulary of garden design; and * temporary
gardens in tactical urbanism. The book comprehensively decodifies
the full range of ephemeral gardens: uprooted, mobile, itinerant,
movable, postmodern, installation, exhibited, conceptual, theme,
pop-up, guerrilla, grassroots, meanwhile, interim, provisional,
activist, community, and parklet. Beyond physical duration,
time-focused design in gardens affects the entire process of
conceiving, building, experiencing, and managing green spaces;
using short-term formats, anyone can invent, trial, and experiment
in a condensed experience of landscape. The temporary garden
emerges as critical cultural ground for the discourse in landscape
architecture, art, ephemeral urbanism, and in urban, landscape, and
garden design. It is inspirational reading for designers and
students alike.
The last 30 years have seen a surge in temporary gardens. The
flexibility and new challenges invested in non-permanent landscapes
has made them a creative and stimulating testing ground for
professionals and impromptu designers. Raffaella Sini examines the
historical evolution of the genre, exploring theory, narratives,
and strategies informing 80 temporary gardens built in France,
Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium,
Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and the United
States. Key topics include: * temporary gardens in 1970s
avant-garde art and 1980s public art; * temporary gardens as
opportunities to work with live processes, practice inclusion, and
explore concepts of social justice and ecology; * temporary gardens
to redefine the vocabulary of garden design; and * temporary
gardens in tactical urbanism. The book comprehensively decodifies
the full range of ephemeral gardens: uprooted, mobile, itinerant,
movable, postmodern, installation, exhibited, conceptual, theme,
pop-up, guerrilla, grassroots, meanwhile, interim, provisional,
activist, community, and parklet. Beyond physical duration,
time-focused design in gardens affects the entire process of
conceiving, building, experiencing, and managing green spaces;
using short-term formats, anyone can invent, trial, and experiment
in a condensed experience of landscape. The temporary garden
emerges as critical cultural ground for the discourse in landscape
architecture, art, ephemeral urbanism, and in urban, landscape, and
garden design. It is inspirational reading for designers and
students alike.
This book traces the evolution of Singapore's parks system, from
colonial to present times. Further, it contextualizes the design
and planning of parks in the general discourse on western and
eastern traditions: early twentieth century western conceptions
'imported' during colonialism; modernism; postmodernism, and the
contemporary ecological debate. Park system planning products
respond to national policies and result in structural urban
elements and a range of park types. Global (western ideology) and
local issues have influenced park system planning and the physical
design of individual parks over time. However, in Singapore the
eastern literature has not addressed the development of parks and
urban green spaces in terms of historical perspective. The
publication reveals the interrelations between visual
representations and changing political ideologies. Singapore's
system of public parks is shown to represent an iconography created
by the state. Its set of constructed narratives elucidates on the
potential social, cultural and environmental roles of public parks.
However, Singapore's park system presents a novel paradigm for
expanding Asian cities, characterized by evolving urban imaging
strategies. In framing Singapore's case study within the broader
perspective of eastern applications of western planning and design
practices, and constructions of nation in post-colonial countries,
the manuscript establishes the contribution of the Singaporean
model of design and planning of parks to the international debate.
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