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“Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.”

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From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings…

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“Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible.…

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“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around…

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“Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”

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“London is the world’s Garden Capital - as Los Angeles is its film capital, Paris its fashion capital and Bogata its narcotics capital.”

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“One cannot analyse the character of European gardens without looking beyond the Mediterranean. This is because horticulture, palace life and city-building developed in the…

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“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

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The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men,…

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“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo…

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Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady…

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In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the…

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“To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly…

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