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Tretow, Christine. "Caspar Neher - Graue Eminenz hinter der Brecht-Gardine und den Kulissen des modernen Musiktheaters eine Werkbiographie /." Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53848112.html.
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Rough, Barbara Anne. "The structure and development of commercial gardening businesses in Fulham and Hammersmith, Middlesex, c. 1680-1861." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282872.
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This dissertation responds to Joan Thirsk's call for historians to undertake a closer investigation of commercial gardening. It adopts a micro-historical approach, to address two questions, 'What was a gardener?', and 'What was a garden business?'' Based in the parish of Fulham (including the hamlet of Hammersmith), Middlesex, the parish with the largest acreage of commercial gardening in England in 1796, the study applies nominal linkage to a variety of sources to understand more fully the gardeners, garden businesses, and gardening families between 1680 and 1861. The dissertation exploits sources with occupational descriptors, including livery company apprentice registers, bankruptcies and insolvencies, clandestine marriage registers, Bank of England accounts, and fire insurance policies, not used previously for a statistical examination of gardening. Quantitative data are set in a rich context using qualitative sources such as newspapers, Old Bailey proceedings and property surveys. Tracing occupational terms through the sources shows that records created by parish and government bodies relied on a few customary terms, each encompassing several different functions in gardening, for much longer than commercial documents, demonstrating how reliance on one source can be misleading. In this study I argue that occupational descriptors in gardening reflected the focus, but failed to capture the entirety, of what was produced in a garden business. From the early eighteenth century garden businesses should not be viewed simply as a market garden or nursery; they cultivated a diversity of horticultural products, but are also found to have had a variety of other agricultural interests and economic pursuits, introducing new products and responding to new opportunities: gardeners did not only garden. Contrary to the claims of some historians this was not just an early phase in the transition from agriculture to specialist gardening but persisted into the nineteenth century. This study contributes not only to the history of commercial gardening but also to wider debates in agricultural and business history. From four land-use maps, dated between 1747 and 1843/5 the changing acreage and locations of gardens have been identified, and the first graphical representation of the land use in the parish from the tithe apportionment schedules is presented. The complex interaction between competing land uses is examined providing new findings about how the garden industry adapted in the face of pressures from urban development and other agricultural needs. Examination of the occupational structure of the industry has been approached through several sources. Very few gardeners were apprenticed, but some families continued to obtain training as gardeners and commercial advantages through one of five different livery companies, as well as the Gardeners' Company. The parish registers give the first tentative estimate of the size of the industry, while registers of clandestine marriages suggest that gardeners were a significant proportion of the middling sort in Fulham in the early eighteenth century. Comparison of gardening occupations in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census enumerators' books provide insights into the structure of the industry but also reveal the inconsistent application of terminology, resulting in the reliability and validity of some of the data being questioned. The implication is that only the 1851 census gives an accurate occupational structure for gardening industry. The findings of previous studies that most gardeners rented their land have been confirmed. On the bishop of London's estate the rents were low during the eighteenth century, but few gardeners were his head lessees and therefore able to benefit. Gardeners had a range of wealth, sufficient for some to have a comfortable living as part of the middling sort while a few had accrued greater wealth from gardening. Garden businesses rarely became bankrupt or insolvent and mainly when there were general economic downturns. Businesses were left predominantly to widows or sons, with the intention of keeping businesses operating and resulting in the establishment of garden business dynasties. The wealth of some businesses demonstrates the benefit of trans-generational transfer, others fared well enough for their business to continue on a smaller scale, but many names came and went from Fulham and Hammersmith commercial gardens in one generation.
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Gharipour, Mohammad. "Pavilion structure in Persianate gardens: reflections in the textual and visual media." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33831.
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The pavilion structure has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since its earliest appearance at the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae (sixth century BC). Despite its significance, the scholarly focus on the study of gardens has somewhat sidelined the study of the pavilions and even neglected the cultural context of the development of the pavilions. The pavilion as a theme appears after the maturation of the concept of paradise as a garden in Near Eastern mythological and religious texts. The Quran is the first known text that integrated the two concepts of pavilion and garden in the imaginary paradise. Later, Persian poetry defines specific relationships between human beings, pavilions, and gardens while stressing the psychological and material values of pavilions and gardens.
Three types of resources were consulted to reconstruct the image of pavilion: literary documents (including mythology and poetry), different types of art (ranging from painting to carpets), and historical accounts. Referring to these allows us to explore the diversity of the pavilion's image in each medium and its degree of correspondence to reality. This dissertation explores the diversity of the pavilion (tent, kiosk, or building), its spatial, formal, and functional relationship with gardens as a flexible entity, and its cultural use. The historical accounts discussed in this dissertation prove the existence of buildings in gardens, the common use of tents as temporary residences, gender specificity of pavilions, and the multi-functionality of gardens for encampments, administrative affairs, and pilgrimages.
The pavilion as building is well documented in both visual and literary media. While poetry draws a clear boundary between the garden and building as separate entities, painting merges or separates the building and garden (as courtyard or planted area) physically, formally, and symbolically. The building in poetry is usually associated with the materialistic world, whereas the garden is often associated with the ideal world. This is, to some extent, visible in paintings in which the geometrical design of the building and the courtyard acts as a reference to the material world. The frequent reference to iwan as a consistent design element in painting and travelers' accounts proves its significance as an intermediate space between inside and outside the pavilion as a building.
Tents in gardens appear less frequently in poetry and painting than they do in textual sources. On the other hand, historical documents rarely point to kiosks or semi-open spaces in gardens, whereas kiosks are widely developed in paintings. The examination of paintings also reveals formal and functional similarities between the throne and kiosk. The kiosk appears in close physical and visual contact with natural components of gardens, and even serves as a connector between the garden and building. The pavilion as a kiosk is, however, to a large extent absent in poetry and historical documents probably due to the dominant interest in buildings. This research proves the dominant cultural view on the functional flexibility of Persianate gardens between the 14th and 18th centuries in using pavilion structures varying in form, function, and scale.
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Miller, Mark Alan. "An exploration of children's gardens reported benefits, recommended elements, and preferred visitor autonomy /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1126818099.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 208 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-163). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Dagnicourt, Éric. "Les gardiens de la cité : la Garde républicaine (1871-1914)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040186.
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La garde républicaine, entre 1871 et 1914, corps de gendarmerie atypique, constitue une unité militaire mixte, regroupant des formations à cheval et d’autres à pied, dont le service essentiel est municipal. Les objectifs de cette thèse sont de préciser sa filiation avec les unités qui l’ont précédée, de définir ses spécificités en terme d’organisation, de fonctionnement et d’infrastructures, de décrypter et de disséquer son service intérieur et municipal afin de le confronter à celui des autres régiments de l’armée et légions de gendarmerie, de situer la place de ces « gardiens de la cité » au sein de la gendarmerie de l’époque et de la comparer à celle tenue par notre actuelle garde républicaine.En trois parties, cette thèse détaille successivement :- les composantes de la garde, infanterie et cavalerie, son organisation régimentaire et son administration, ses différents rouages et sa composition, son recrutement, sa symbolique et ses uniformes ;- sa vie quotidienne, sa formation militaire et municipale, ses casernes, sa discipline ;- la police de la voie publique à Paris et les forces qui l’assurent, l’influence du préfet de police sur la garde, ses différents services, son utilisation au maintien et au rétablissement de l’ordre.L’hypothèse de travail est de constater à quel point la garde républicaine de la Belle Époque diffère de l’actuelle garde, si proche d’elle par ses silhouettes, ses représentations, ses traditions, son implantation, si éloignée par son unique vocation de garde présidentielle, protectrice des institutions de la RépubliqueThe Republican Guard, between 1871 and 1914, an atypical unit of the French Gendarmerie (military police), is comprised of joint military forces, combining horseback and foot patrols, which is mainly on duty in the city of Paris. The goals of this thesis are to specify its connection to the previously existing units, describe its specific character in terms of organization, operations and infrastructures, to decipher and dissect its domestic and municipal service in order to compare it with that of other French military regiments and Gendarmerie legions, to define the role of these “guardians of the city” within the Gendarmerie of this period and compare it with that of our current Republican Guard.Divided into three parts, this thesis consecutively examines :- the components of the Guard’s infantry and cavalry, its regimental organization and administration, its various inner mechanisms and composition, its recruitment, symbolism and uniforms;- its daily life, military and municipal training, barracks and discipline;- the public roadway police in Paris and the forces which ensure it, the influence of police headquarters on the Guard, its role in maintaining and reestablishing order.The working hypothesis is to show how different the Republican Guard of the Belle Epoque is compared to the current Guard, so similar to it in its shape, performances, traditions, and establishment, so far-removed in its sole purpose of presidential guard, guardian of the French Republic’s establishments
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Johnson, Susan. "Models of gardening in education." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367335.
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Cran, Stephanie. "An In-Depth Look at Community Gardens: Practices that Support Community Garden Longevity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707405/.
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Current food production methods in the United States contribute to environmental degradation as well as food insecurity. Food production by means of community gardens has the potential to reduce the deleterious effects of current production methods. However, many community gardens face challenges that hinder their longevity, thereby reducing the likelihood of the support they might provide for environmentally sustainable food production and decreased food insecurity for community members. A behavioral systems science approach was combined with ethnographic research methods, matrix analysis, and a literature review regarding best practices for community gardens to study the cultural practices of three established community gardens in the southwest region of the US. The results of the analyses conducted are presented in terms of recommendations to support each target community garden's sustainability. Recommendations regarding future research include environmental manipulations to identify functional relations and potential outcome measures for improving the longevity of community gardens are provided.
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Bradley, Lucy, and Gail Morris. "Specialty Gardens for Arizona." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144687.
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2 pp.Once you have the basics of gardening down, it'?s fun to be creative! Many parts of your classroom curriculum can be incorporated in gardening. You can plant Butterfly Gardens, Bat Gardens, Pizza Gardens, Salsa Gardens, Dinosaur Gardens or build Sunflower Houses with your younger students. A simple idea like an ABC garden with a plant to match each letter can make learning the alphabet a bit more interesting when you break up the day by visiting your garden. It'?s an ideal situation for an older class to organize for the younger children in the school.
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Kay, Lily Shannon. "The design of a botanical garden based on an analysis of four English gardens." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21671.
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Mahdizadeh, Sara. "Historical gardens in transition in 20th century Iran : a critical analysis of garden conservation." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6634/.
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While Iran is considered by many to be the land of the earliest recorded gardens, during the 20th century many of its historical gardens were deliberately destroyed, while others were inadequately conserved or remain in a state of dereliction and suffer continued decline. In contrast to current literature that generally studies Iranian historical gardens as physical structures under the rubric of 'Persian Gardens', this study integrates the changes in different dimensions of historical gardens to capture their plight in 20th century Iran. It aims to provide a deeper understanding of how political shifts before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 have shaped various approaches towards historical gardens, and the ways in which these attitudes have affected or been reflected in the material, social, and symbolic dimensions of Iranian historical gardens. It will analyse the key factors shaping the diverse approaches and interests, as well as the outcomes of these on the life of such gardens, in order to provide more appropriate recommendations regarding garden conservation in Iran. To this end, this thesis employed an in-depth case study strategy. The selected case studies are: Golestan Royal garden in Tehran; the gardens of the nobility in Shiraz; and the Qadamgah tomb garden near Neyshabour. Each of these cases highlights a particular aspect of garden treatment. All of the case studies pursue a consistent line in order to trace the different approaches and changes (mainly challenges brought by the changing political climate) to various dimensions of those gardens and the ways of garden conservation more broadly. Through the interpretation of socio-political events, categorising the wide and varied sources of information to support these case studies, documentation of overall changes has been done chronologically through a close reading of each case study garden. Drawing attention to how three examples of gardens have been affected differently, this research provides an original contribution to the knowledge of how the concepts of cultural heritage, ideology and religion have an impact on various dimensions of historical gardens in 20th century Iran. Based on the results derived from the analysis of case studies, this research argues that in order for gardens to find ways to continue as vibrant and 'living heritage', the approach adapted to conservation should firstly move beyond the traditional museum-like approach and material restoration. Conserving the twin dimensions of the physical and social aspects could offer a more consistent and resilient platform for the process of identity construction, engaging the public much more in the life of gardens. Secondly, it suggests that both restricted/rigid and flexible approaches, both the bottom-up needs of the people and the top-down tendencies of the authorities, could be compatible. These provide useful points of reference regarding practical ways for addressing the continuity of the material and social life of historical gardens.
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Segura, Laura S. "Down the Garden Path| The Gardens and Natural Landscapes of Anne and Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10680834.
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Victorian culture was constantly engaging with nature and garden imagery. In this thesis, I argue that the literary gardens of Anne and Charlotte Brontë function as a trope that enables an examination of nineteenth-century social concerns; these literary gardens are a natural space that serve as a “middle ground” between the defense of traditional social conventions and the utter disregard of them. In Agnes Grey (1847), Jane Eyre (1847), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) the female characters have significant encounters within the gardens and outdoor spaces; Agnes, Jane, and Helen venture into these environments and emerge changed—whether by experiential knowledge or from the temptation of social and moral transgression. In AG, Anne Brontë uses the image of the garden and natural landscapes, in order to explore Agnes’s education within her governessing experience. In JE, the garden functions as a space that appears to offer Jane a reprieve from the Gothic terror of the house, yet it actually extends that influence. The entire estate is a literal boundary point for Jane in her life, but it also represents the metaphorical barrier between Jane and potential social transgression—one that she must navigate because of her romance with Rochester. In Tenant, the house, the garden, and the landscape symbolize Helen’s identity, as the widowed artist Mrs. Graham, an identity that only exists during her time at Wildfell. Helen’s identity as a professional female artist living in a wild landscape accentuates Gilbert’s sexual desire towards her. Anne Brontë critiques Victorian marriage and class expectations through Helen’s final circumvention of social rules. In these novels, the scenes in the gardens and natural landscapes serve as a way for these authors to engage with the complexities of “The Woman Question” through the characterization of the governess and the artist.
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Sfakiotaki, D. (Despina). "Analysis of movement in sequential space:perceiving the traditional Japanese tea and stroll garden." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2005. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514276531.
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The research aims to investigate the spatiality of the sequential Japanese tea (roji) and stroll garden (kaiyûshiki), whose appearance reached its peak during the Feudal period in Japan (1573–1868), in relation to the perceiver's locomotion. The desire of that era to go beyond sensual beauty and to make a philosophical statement, led to the development of a garden where the moving participant perceives a series of successive fragmentary views. Such a concept of space, with the principle of successive observation, is a distinct feature of Japan, and can also be observed in urban design, architecture, painting and literature.
This research is about the necessity of incorporating movement in the design of gardens, as a prerequisite for fully perceiving space. It thereby shows how through analysing those two distinct types of sequential spaces, the Japanese tea and stroll gardens, one arrives at patterns of spatial configurations that encourage active participation on the subject's part. Emphasising the environment-person transaction, the research aims to study the structure and features of the Japanese tea and stroll gardens as sequential spaces, with reference to the affordance possibilities they provide for an individual, as developed by the late James J. Gibson. Although not confined solely to it, the analysis used at the core of this research, is based on Gibson's ecological approach and on Harry Heft's contribution to ecological psychology. The empirical part of the research uses a variety of gardens as examples, as well as the case studies of a model teagarden and the garden of Shisendô (situated in the city of Kyoto).
The research aims to acquire accounts of knowledge of techniques and spatial formations that do not ignore or minimise the central importance of the subject's movement, but on the contrary, fortify and take advantage of it. This body of knowledge can be an initial approach to designing sequential spaces in domains that lack the specific socio-cultural practices by showing some opportunities and potential affordances that every perceiver can pick up using his own background and cultural context.
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Sithole, Mkhokheli. "Improving people’s well-being through urban garden farming.(Case of allotment gardens in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geography, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-5504.
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The study seeks to understand the importance and relevance of Urban Agriculture (UA) in the form of urban garden farming for vulnerable groups of people in the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. The study is based on fieldwork which was carried out between June and August 2008 in Bulawayo. This was also the time of political uncertainty due to shameful presidential elections which were presided and followed by violence and intimidation of the civilians. The focus of the study is on how urban gardens contribute to livelihoods and well being of the beneficiaries.
The thesis employs the capability approach to address the research problem. The capability approach is modified and operationalised in a model that is relevant to this particular study. In the ensuing capability framework, gardens are treated as goods or services that enable beneficiaries to enjoy various capability sets.
The study reveals that urban gardens are important in providing livelihoods and improving well-beings in crumbling urban economies such as that of Bulawayo. Beneficiaries utilise the capability sets provided by gardens in an attempt to improve their well being. Capability sets which include food security, income generation, political participation and social capital related are also critically discussed exploring their relevance and significance in improving people’s lives.
One of the important issues in this study has been to acknowledge the diversity that exists amongst people. Even though the capability sets might be the same, they are explored differently by different people depending on external and internal factors affecting an individual. This makes the capability approach a powerful tool in that it enables a realistic understanding of people’s individual problems and potentials. In the Capability framework approach, various factors such as gender, physical condition, skill, education and institutions are discussed and their influence on what the beneficiaries can achieve from the gardens and the kind of life they want to choose to pursue thereafter is elaborated upon.
Beneficiaries from the same garden benefitted in a different way depending on how they used the capability sets. This thus tended to determine the kind of life they eventually could chose to live. It is thus important in development studies to pay particular attention to individual problems and abilities than to study people en masse.
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Watson, Travis. "Not All Pollinator Gardens are Created Equally: Determining Factors Pertinent to Improving Pollinator Garden Effectiveness." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3876.
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Increasing evidence documenting the decline of insect populations, resulting from increasing human disturbances has resulted in efforts to establish pollinator gardens to provide additional resources for insect populations. However, our understanding of biotic and abiotic garden characteristics important for attracting and sustaining pollinator diversity is limited. Here, we evaluated 17 pollinator gardens to evaluate the effect of five biotic and three abiotic garden characteristics on pollinator species richness, abundance, and proportional representation of four pollinator functional groups. Plant species richness positively influenced pollinator richness and negatively influenced flower visitation. Bombus proportional abundance responded to several variables (distance to vegetation, plant species richness, floral symmetry, floral native status, habitat type), and decreases in their proportional representation were accompanied by increasing proportions of other insect groups. Our results suggest any size, diverse, native pollinator gardens can improve pollinator diversity, and small-scale pollinator gardens should favor functional groups adapted for the habitat type.
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Gagliardi, James A. "An analysis of the initial planning process of new public horticulture institutions." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 157 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1694433141&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Caldicott, Elizabeth. "Mitcham's front gardens : a study of changing garden styles and practices in post war suburban Adelaide /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armc146.pdf.
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Brooks, Ann. "A veritable Eden : the Manchester Botanic Garden 1827 - 1907 and the movement for subscription botanic gardens." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506142.
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Dixon, Lee. "Managing domestic gardens collectively to promote biodiversity : opportunities and constraints." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/managing-domestic-gardens-collectively-to-promote-biodiversity-opportunities-and-constraints(97f99d37-e825-4e5a-b786-cb587616fab1).html.
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Urban environments are typically host to a high level of biodiversity which is important for the provision of ecosystem services, and for facilitating contact between humans and nature. However, accelerating urbanisation precipitates considerable declines in the number of species which inhabit these environments as a greater number of homes and roads are constructed to accommodate a growing global human population. Domestic gardens afford an important opportunity to combat these declines, owing to their capacity to support a high level of biodiversity and the substantial land area which they cover. However, the fine spatial scale of individual isolated domestic gardens constrains their ability to increase biodiversity at larger spatial scales. Consequently, managing domestic gardens collectively, by conjoining multiple neighbouring domestic gardens and managing them as a single larger habitat, has been proposed as a promising approach to increase biodiversity at these scales. Importantly however, the practical implementation of this approach necessitates neighbouring householders to collaboratively undertake biodiversity favourable garden management and to conjoin their domestic gardens. Crucially, this management is performed by householders discretionarily and can be influenced by demographic, perceptual, environmental, and socio-economic factors. Furthermore, householder attitudes towards conjoining domestic gardens may also influence the practicality of this approach. Therefore, this research explores what impact the extent to which householders undertake biodiversity favourable garden management has on the practicality of the collective management approach and how this is influenced by the aforementioned factors. In addition, it explores how this practicality is influenced by householder attitudes to conjoining domestic gardens. Lastly, it investigates how the collaborative undertaking of biodiversity favourable garden management by neighbouring householders could be encouraged, taking into consideration the constraints associated with current projects which promote such management. A survey was used to explore the prevalence of biodiversity favourable garden management, the influences on this management, and attitudes towards conjoining domestic gardens. This was conducted with an online semi-structured questionnaire which was distributed to householders using the social-networking site, Facebook. In addition, a bio-indicator approach was used to analyse the impact of general domestic garden management on biodiversity and birds were selected as a bio-indicator. Accordingly, respondents to the survey were also required to identify which bird species visit their domestic gardens. Seventeen elite interviews were also conducted with representatives from a range of organisations operating domestic garden projects, participants in such projects, and academics with expertise in domestic garden management, in order to explore the constraints associated with current domestic garden projects. The survey yielded 276 responses and provided support to the practicality of the collective management approach. In particular, it indicated that householders commonly undertake biodiversity favourable garden management, by predominantly providing food for birds and planting vegetation, and 60% of householders are willing to conjoin domestic gardens. However, the survey also highlighted that biodiversity favourable garden management is impeded by a number of factors. These included small domestic gardens, which particularly limit vegetation planting, and can be commonplace in urban environments. In addition, householders commonly nullify the benefits afforded by undertaking this management by covering domestic gardens with hard surface and lawns, which eliminate space for vegetation. Moreover, strong desires to retain ownership and privacy of domestic gardens precipitate the unwillingness of a significant proportion of householders to conjoin domestic gardens. This therefore challenges the practicality of the collective management approach. The results from the elite interviews indicated that householders lack commitment to current domestic garden projects, which are constrained by difficulties acquiring sufficient funding. These issues could also be pertinent to approaches which are developed to encourage the collaborative undertaking of biodiversity favourable garden management, further rendering the collective management approach impractical. The practicality of the collective management approach could be enhanced by modifying the design of new housing in a manner which is favourable to biodiversity and which ensures a minimal domestic garden size. In addition, including domestic gardens in green infrastructure strategies could further enhance this practicality. Furthermore, amending planning policy to regulate the covering of domestic gardens with hard surface and lawns more stringently could reduce the prevalence of these features. Householder commitment to approaches which encourage the collaborative undertaking of biodiversity favourable garden management could be promoted by providing feedback regarding the contribution this makes to increasing biodiversity at large spatial scales. Moreover, greater funding for these approaches could be acquired by also focusing on promoting the provision of ecosystem services. Finally, householder collaboration could be encouraged by accommodating desires for ownership and privatisation of domestic gardens. This could be respectively achieved by permitting flexibility regarding the biodiversity favourable garden management undertaken and separating conjoined domestic gardens with hedgerows.
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Kearney, Shanon C. "The Community Garden as a Tool for Community Empowerment: A Study of Community Gardens in Hampden County." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/361/.
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Mugo, Susan Wambogo. "Citizens + vacant lots=community open space : a case study of the Union Settlement Community Garden, East Harlem, New York City /." This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03302010-020323/.
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Klein, Sydney Kristen. "The Role of University Food Gardens in Higher Education Sustainability." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1395.
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Higher Education has the resources available to serve as a leader in sustainability, specifically by preparing graduates to address issues associated with global climate change through the use of interdisciplinary and hands-on learning. However, institutional barriers may limit large-scale restructuring of curriculum and institutional structures. Small initiatives and broad networking may help to provide sustainability education while also paving the way for broader curriculum and institutional adaptations. The potential of community gardens to serve as sustainability and community interventions make them a desirable study site to gain insight into the power of small initiatives, yet very few studies have assessed the role of community garden projects in campus settings. Through the use of an email survey sent to campus garden managers across the United States and Canada, the power of these initiatives to advance higher education sustainability can be better understood. The study sought to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the demographic characteristics of university food gardens?, (2) Do university gardens serve as sites for formal and informal education, (3) What obstacles and benefits occur within university food gardens, and (4) What factors affect the long-term resilience of university food garden initiatives? It was found that when institutional support, strong networking, and consistent participation are present, university food gardens enhance the overall sustainability of higher education institutions while also providing valuable sources of interdisciplinary and hands-on learning. Gardens receiving the greatest support from their institution exhibit strong resilience and provide numerous benefits that aid increase the overall sustainability of their institution. This study asserts the power of small sustainability initiatives within higher education institutions, while also addressing key factors which ensure the long-term resilience of these valuable sites.
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Hammarsten, Victoria, and Yvonne Boqvist. "Trädgårdsterapi- kan det hjälpa? : en kunskapsöversikt om trädgårdsterapins roll vid tillfrisknande från stressrelaterad ohälsa." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för hälsa och arbetsliv, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8351.
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Syftet med vår studie var att studera trädgårdsterapins roll i människors tillfrisknande från stressrelaterad ohälsa. Studiens frågeställningar var: (1) vilka faktorer beskrivs som stressreducerande i natur och trädgård? (2) på vilket sätt kan personer med stressrelaterad ohälsa bli hjälpta genom trädgårdsterapi? För att besvara våra frågeställningar användes en kvalitativ metod med hjälp av en kunskapsöversikt. Våra analysverktyg har varit KASAM och Coping. Slutsatsen av studien är att trädgård och natur kan stärka återhämtningsprocessen för människor med stressrelaterad ohälsa. Trädgård och natur kan bidra med stressreducerande faktorer som gör att återhämtningen påskyndas och stärks, såsom att hitta lugn, känna trygghet och få utrymme för reflektion. Även samtal och aktiviteter är viktiga delar för återhämtning i trädgårdsterapin. Sökord vi använt oss av är: trädgårdsterapi, terapiträdgårdar, grön rehabilitering, restorativ trädgård och stressrelaterad ohälsa.The aim of this study was to study the role of horticultural therapy in people´s recovery from stress-related illness. Study questions were: (1) what factors are described as stress-reducing in nature and gardening? (2) in what way can people with stress-related illness be helped by garden therapy? In order to answer our questions, a qualitative methodology using a research synthesis has been made. Our analysis tools were Sense of Coherence and Coping. The study shows that garden and nature can enhance the recovery process for people with stress-related illness. Garden and nature can help with stress-reducing factors that make recovery accelerated and strengthened, such as finding peace, feeling safe and have a space for reflection. Also conversations and activities are important elements for recovery in the horticultural therapy. Keywords we have used are: horticultural therapy, healing gardens, garden therapy, therapeutic gardens, green rehabilitation, restorative garden and stress related illness.
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Wierzbicki, Kaye Jocelyn. "Garden Work: The Horticultural Formation of American Literature, 1850-1930." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070044.
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Garden Work argues that American literature's sense of form developed as part of an ongoing theoretical conversation with the field of garden design. Of particular significance to American writers was a horticultural dispute that took on a renewed sense of urgency in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: that between the garden naturalists, who crafted gardens to look like un-designed natural spaces, and the garden formalists, who crafted gardens that visually distinguish between human and wilderness sites. This dissertation identifies a literary cohort within this horticentric period--Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather--who enter into the naturalism/formalism debates via their garden journals, environmental reforms, manifestoes, and the design of their own yards and gardens. Though initially attracted to garden design for different reasons, these authors all become increasingly skeptical of the ideological assumptions behind garden naturalism and increasingly fascinated by old-fashioned traditions of formal gardening, such as Italian, French, and Colonial Revival gardens.
Garden Work reveals both the impact that garden design has on America's literary history and the theoretical contributions that literature can make to garden design. On the one hand, the authors I study integrate their garden work into the narrative fabric of their most canonical texts, often at those moments when they are most self-reflective about what it means to produce formally innovative fiction that is nevertheless rooted in natural American landscapes. For these writers, garden formalism becomes central to their ability to imagine American literature in the wake of the American Renaissance. On the other hand, these authors are enabled by their expertise in the medium of prose fiction to identify new theoretical problems within and features of garden design. Specifically, their ability to articulate garden theory not in terms of a conflict between art and nature but rather as a dynamic relationship between form and content, a relationship they encounter repeatedly in their literary work, permits these authors to analyze in innovative ways the social, environmental, and aesthetic consequences of garden design. Ultimately, Garden Work uncovers the interwoven nature of America's garden history and its literary history.
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Lubbe, Catherina Susanna. "Comparison of the urban domestic garden flora along a socio-economic gradient in the Tlokwe City Municipality / Catherina Susanna Lubbe." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6589.
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Urbanisation has increased tremendously over the last 60 years so that more than 50 per cent of the
world population now live in cities. This is especially true for in developed countries, but it is expected
that developing countries will take the lead in future urban population growth. This increasing trend of
urbanisation has severe consequences for the environment, as it fragments and changes natural areas
and alter environmental conditions. This has compelled scientists from many different disciplines to
focus on the inclusion of humans into ecology as a driving force of change to create a better
understanding of urban ecosystems.
The diversity of fauna and flora in the urban environment provides a myriad of ecosystem goods (such
as food and fuel) and services (e.g. cleaning the air and reducing noise levels). Apart from these tangible
benefits, urban green space also provides recreational, educational and social benefits to urban
inhabitants. A surprisingly substantial proportion (21‒36 %) of the total urban green space that
produces these ecosystem goods and services is located in private yards. This portrays the importance
of the flora of this land-use type, but very little is known about garden flora and its potential for
conservation. The determinants of diversity and species richness in gardens were found to be different
than for semi-natural ecosystems, because of the high anthropogenic influence. One of these is the
socio-economic status of the inhabitants. People with higher socio-economic status were found to
harbour more diverse species assemblages in their gardens than those of lower socio-economic status.
This phenomenon was termed the “luxury concept”.
In the Tlokwe City Municipality (TCM), the legacy effects of apartheid created a steep socio-economic
gradient as a result of the inequitable distribution of economic, natural and social resources. The aims of
this study were to gain information on the flora that is present in the domestic gardens of the TCM and
to determine if socio-economic status (SES), a management index (MI) and demographic factors
influences the distribution of plant species between these gardens. A total of 835 plant species were
recorded from 100 domestic gardens and the majority were of alien origin. This large number of species
included some Red Data species, invasive alien species and also many utilitarian species. This portrays
gardens as important ex situ conservation habitats, but simultaneously it could also threaten the
integrity of our natural ecosystems through the distribution of alien invasive species.
The gamma, alpha and beta diversity were determined across five SES classes to describe the patterns of
domestic garden plant species diversity in the TCM. In accordance with other studies, correlations
showed that the SES of the inhabitants affected the plant species distribution in the study area. This was
especially true for the distribution of alien species that are cultivated for their ornamental value. More species were found in areas of high SES than those of lower SES. The other aspect that influenced the
distribution of plant species in these gardens were the MI, although this was to a lesser extent than the
effect of SES. The confirmation of differences along the SES gradient could be utilised by urban planners
and policy makers to correct this imbalance through the provision of urban green spaces where it is
needed most.Thesis (M. Environmental Sciences and Management)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Mortimer, Allyn M. "Power in the garden exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4749.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 6, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Adlard, Michelle Catherine. "The garden as a metaphor for paradise." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002187.
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In this half thesis the use of the garden as a metaphor for paradise has been explored. The English word “ paradise“ was derived from the Greek word “ paradeisos” which in turn was derived from the Old Avestana “ pairi-daeza,” meaning an enclosure. In Ancient Persia the concept applied to an enclosed garden in the modern sense of the word. For this reason the thesis begins with an examination of the development of the garden in this desert region. A more-or-less continuous chain of development in both the physical and allegorical nature of the garden is traced through history from these Ancient Persian beginnings to the height of Mughal architecture (epitomised by the Taj Mahal), by way of the Muslim expansion through Central Asia and Europe. While the core elements of garden design were set in Ancient Persian times, and recur throughout the period studied, the impact of Islam on the local Persian culture brought about a new development of allegorical meaning associated with the garden. This allegorical development reached its apex, too, in the Taj Mahal in which, it is argued, the metaphorical representation of paradise in the garden tomb was made astonishingly explicit. The research for this mini thesis was gathered from secondary sources, including many published books and academic papers, photographic and diagrammatic evidence of extant ancient gardens, and reproductions of carpet designs.
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Althoff, Julie. "Il Sacro Bosco d'amore, communication through desire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq64104.pdf.
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Thompson, Robert. "A creative project for the US Botanic Garden : an alternative design for the National Garden." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864950.
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A call for design proposals for three features for the National Garden was held in October, 1992 by the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden. The competition called for refinement of an existing master plan developed by EDAW, a landscape architectural firm, or the design of a new concept for the National Garden. This creative project chose to develop a new master and to document the research, process, and assumptions that lead to the final design. The research will focus on the examination of the site and it's history (Washington, D.C.) and examination into the history, evolution, and relevance of botanic gardens.The underlying thesis is that the changing roles that botanic gardens have played in society have had an effect on their built form. The current role of botanic garden as a pleasure garden aswell as an educational experiences is the result of hundreds of years of evolution. By the examination of the history and changing roles of botanic gardens, this creative project will design a space that not only meets the needs of the competition, but will meet the needs of the generation at hand.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Colburn, Terra Celeste Mrs. "GROWING GARDENS: BOTANICAL GARDENS, PUBLIC SPACE AND CONSERVATION." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2012. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/788.
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This thesis examines the history of botanical gardens and their evolution
from ancient spaces to the modern gardens of the 20th century. I provide a brief
overview of botanical gardens, with a focus on the unique intersection of public
participation and scientific study that started to occur within garden spaces during
the 20th century, which still continues today. I reveal the history of gardens that
influenced the uses of gardens today, with a focus on: the first ancient gardens
and the dependency societies had on them, the influence of science in gardens
starting in the Enlightenment period, the shift away from scientific gardens and
the introductions of public gardens in the early 20th century, and the
reintroduction of science into gardens during the conservation movement of the
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Grant, Laura Jane. "Pleasure Gardens." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73680.
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This thesis is comprised of a series of paintings that study historical representations of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and reinvention in fantastical form. There is no attempt in these paintings to represent objects or things that exist in the physical world, but instead a desire to create a new fantasy world. The image of ‘garden as paradise’ has been part of our human mythos for a very long time. The image of ‘garden of eden’ appears in the old testament of the Bible. There was a similar early image of ‘garden as paradise’ in Zoroastrian beliefs in ancient ‘Persia’.Master of Architecture
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Stagman, Siv, and Hörberg Karina Adolfsson. "Intryck, uttryck, avtryck : en studie av två formgivares designmetodiker, formspråk och inspirationskällor och sambandet mellan deras trädgårdar och konstnärliga uttryck." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Mathematics, Natural and Computer Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-3098.
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Detta examensarbete är en studie av glas- och silverformgivaren Gunnar Cyréns och modedesignern Gunilla Ponténs designmetodiker, formspråk och inspirationskällor. Det undersöker också om de uttrycker sig konstnärligt i sina privata trädgårdar. Kan deras formspråk spåras i trädgården och har trädgården inspirerat dem i deras formgivningsarbete? Utifrån vad vi har funnit har vi skissat på trädgårdsidéer och tematrädgårdar med utgångspunkt i hur vi uppfattat deras formspråk. I det arbetet har vi tillämpat de av dem beskrivna designmetodikerna.
This degree thesis studies the design methodology, artistic expression and source of inspiration of two renowned Swedish designers: Gunnar Cyrén, glass artist and silversmith, and Gunilla Pontén, fashion designer. It also investigates if they express themselves artistically in their private gardens. Can their artistic expressions be seen in their gardens? Has the garden inspired them in their design work?
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Samková, Kamila. "Emerging Community Gardens : Visions, motivations and further aspects that influence organization of acommunity garden based on experiences in the Czech Republic and Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys (fms), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-136989.
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Cherry, Levi Scott. "Community Development at Heronswood Botanical Garden." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799524/.
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The overall main goal of this research is to assist with the planning and creation of an ethnobotanical addition at the Heronswood Garden, a botanical garden located in northwest Washington state recently purchased by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. Methods included a three month long ethnographic study of Heronswood Garden as an official intern, and conducting a needs assessment that primarily employed participant observation and semi-structured open-ended interviews with all garden employees. Information revealed through the research includes causal issues behind a lack of community participation at the garden, elaboration on the solutions to various issues facilitated by negotiating and combining the views and opinions of the garden’s employees, and author reflections on the needs assessment report and the project as a whole. This research connects itself with and utilizes the methodologies and theories from applied anthropology, environmental anthropology, and environmental science to provide contemporary perspective into the subject of preserving or preventing the loss of biodiversity, language diversity, and sociocultural diversity.
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Gardner, Kristin Kiara. "Spatial and seasonal variability of watershed response to anthropogenic nitrogen loading in a mountainous watershed." Diss., Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/gardner/GardnerK1210.pdf.
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Anthropogenic activity has greatly increased watershed export of bioavailable nitrogen. Escalating levels of bioavailable nitrogen can deteriorate aquatic ecosystems by promoting nuisance algae growth, depleting dissolved oxygen levels, altering biotic communities, and expediting eutrophication. Despite these potential detrimental impacts, there is notable lack of understanding of the linkages between anthropogenic nitrogen inputs and the spatial and seasonal heterogeneity of stream network concentrations and watershed nitrogen export. This dissertation research seeks to more accurately define these linkages by investigating the roles of landscape position and spatial distribution of anthropogenic nitrogen inputs on the magnitude and speciation of watershed nitrogen export and retention and how these roles vary seasonally across contrasting landscapes in a 212 km² mountainous watershed in southwest Montana. Results indicate localized inputs of anthropogenic nitrogen occurring in watershed areas with quick transport times to streams had disproportionate effects on watershed nitrogen export compared to spatially distributed or localized inputs of nitrogen to areas with longer transport times. In lower elevation alluvial streams, these effects varied seasonally and were most evident during the dormant winter season by amplified nitrate peaks, elevated dissolved organic nitrogen:dissolved organic nitrogen (DIN:DON) ratios and lower dissolved organic carbon (DOC):total dissolved nitrogen (DOC:TDN). During the summer growing season, biologic uptake of nitrogen masked anthropogenic influences on watershed nitrogen export; however, endmember mixing analysis of nitrate isotopes revealed significant anthropogenic influence during the growing season, despite low nitrate concentrations and DIN:DON ratios. In contrast, streams draining alpine environments consisting of poorly developed, shallow soils and small riparian areas exhibited yearlong elevated nitrate concentrations compared to other sites, suggesting these areas were highly nitrogen enriched. Watershed modeling revealed the majority of watershed nitrogen retention occurred in the upland environment, most likely from biological uptake or lack of hydrologic connectivity. This work has critical implications for watershed management, which include: 1) developing flexible strategies that address varying landscape characteristics and nitrogen loading patterns across a watershed, 2) avoiding clustering nitrogen loading in areas with quick travel times to surface waters, 3) seasonal monitoring to accurately gauge watershed nitrogen saturation status, and 4) incorporating spatial relationships into streamwater nitrogen models.
'Co-authored by Brian L. McGlynn and Lucy A. Marshall.'
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Anstine, Michele. ""To improve and beautify our surroundings" a study of private and public gardening in New Castle, Delaware, 1880-1940 /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 150 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597631121&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lindström, Anton. "Gardens of Compost." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280187.
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An interrogation of architecture's prevailing myths, and a practice for how to live and die well as an architect in the Anthropocene epoch. It is an effort to combine joyful representation and speculation (because architecture is both too serious and not nearly serious enough), with philosophy, for still possible pasts, presents and futures. For this it leans mainly on the ideas of Donna Haraway, Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari, to present a methodology called Nomad Storytelling. A methodology that aims to move between a multiplicity of adjacent sites as to care for them in appropriate ways, with the intention of contributing to the idea of relationally unmaking the environmental urgencies of the 21th century. It consists of 8 chapters dealing with juridical care, letting be as care, humour and shaming, fabulous speculation, non-quantifiable architecture as dissent and graphic design as a crucial part of remembering what the cost of architecture is beyond the monetary, in the end suggesting the idea of architect-as-worm and compost architecture. It’s about not telling another killer story, because they always end with apocalypse or dystopia, and instead tell stories of gathering and fabulous futures, as Ursula K. Le Guin called it. Because it matters which architectures architect architecture and which lines line lines.
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Stewart, Austin M. "The Militant Gardener." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339586615.
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Jhaveri, Nynika (Nynika P. ). "Gardens of resistance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132765.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2021Cataloged from the official pdf of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).
Over the last few millennia, the city that today is the seat to the world's largest "democracy" has served as the nerve center for generations of empires and emperors, political paradigms and intersecting identities. As for most capital cities such as New Delhi, alongside entrenched political regimes come the evolution of a parallel legacy of fighting against, opposing and obstructing, and resisting. Whether manifesting as the rallying cries at mass protests, as the purposeful strokes on canvas in practices of critical art, or as the defiant lyrics and rhythms in musical compositions, resistance is instrumental in the vocabulary of any effective political vision. Considering the Central Vista Complex in Lutyens' New Delhi specifically, we look at a political urban fabric that has embodied these simultaneous histories for the past century, as a site of power and of resistance to that same power, as belonging to the governing and to the governed. Built as a monumental colonial project in opposition to Delhi's existing Mughal city center in 1911, appropriated as a symbol of a new nation's power as a post colonial inversion in 1947, serving as a site for rallies, protests, and parades engaging the growing pains of independence and modernization in 60s and 70s, and finally as part of a repressive, autocratic re-branding resisting due process and dialogue in 2020, the site's spatial politics have also witnessed a plethora of resistances. This thesis questions the role of architecture in envisioning and engaging the tools of resistance in the context of such political sites. It narrates the stories of three actors as they reclaim the Complex's Mughal Gardens - landscapes historically seen as spaces of utopic experimentation and speculation - as spaces of their own resistance. Considering the architectural tools of process, scale, materiality, and temporality, the actors strive to re-inscribe an entirely new set of contemporary cultural and civic values into an otherwise charged landscape, a form of socio-spatial resistance in response to their own historical moments.
by Nynika Jhaveri.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Vapaa, Annalisa Gartman. "Healing Gardens: Creating Places for Restoration, Meditation, and Sanctuary." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32684.
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The â healing gardenâ is an evolving concept that is gaining popularity today. What is a healing garden? Why is one garden called a healing garden and not another? How is a healing garden defined? In what way are gardens healing? This thesis describes the ways in which healing gardens are beneficial in healthcare and residential settings. A set of guidelines for the design of healing gardens is created as a result of research findings as well as three design projects that are illustrated in the document.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Melchior, Caleb David. "Knowledge gardens: designing public gardens for transformative experience of dynamic vegetation." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19763.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
This project explores the potential of gardens as specific physical places where humans cultivate vegetation. Humans are increasingly separated from natural systems, particularly vegetation, in their daily lives. Such a disconnect results in a failure to build emotional ties to and deep care for the natural world. To address this disconnect, landscape architects and planting designers need to understand how to design public gardens as ambiguous landscapes, landscapes that refer to natural ecosystems while also clearly revealing the human role in their design and care. Design choices involve environmental components and their articulation. Designers currently lack a vocabulary to identify the components of transformative experiences between people and plants. They also lack a visual understanding of how relationships between components can be articulated to establish ambiguity in specific sites. Synthesis of literature in experiential learning, dynamic vegetation, and planting design establishes a vocabulary of component cues to set up conditions for transformative experience in public gardens. Critical drawing of ambiguous landscapes by contemporary planting designers augments the researcher’s understanding of experiential cues. In order to explore the potential formal impact of designing for ambiguity throughout the design process, this project’s design application spans two sites: Chapman Botanical Garden in Apalachicola, Florida, and the Meadow on the Kansas State University campus, Manhattan, Kansas. Designing Chapman Botanical Garden offers the potential to be involved with the conceptual phases of site design: site planning, programming, and planting design. Designing at the Meadow offers the opportunity to be involved in the implementation phase of design: stakeholder involvement, selection and growing of plants, and design interpretation. Together, the two planting design explorations represent a complete design process for transformative experience.
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Unrau, Dan. "Driver Response to Rainfall on the Gardiner Expressway." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/973.
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Adverse weather conditions can increase travel risk. Understanding how drivers react to adverse weather, such as rainfall, can aid in the understanding of road safety patterns and traffic operations. This information can in turn be used to improve driver education as well as highway operation through improved signing or the introduction of intelligent highway systems. Hourly rainfall data collected from the Pearson International Airport weather station and City of Toronto traffic data collected at the study site on the Gardiner expressway were used to create event and control pairs. In total, 115 hours with rainfall were matched to control data one week before or after the rainfall event. The traffic sensor at the study site collected speed, volume, and occupancy data at 20-second intervals, which was aggregated to five minutes. In addition, speed deviation and headway data at the 5-minute interval were used for analysis purposes. Two methods were used to test the effects of rainfall on traffic variables and the relationships between them. Matched pair t-tests were used to determine the magnitude of change between event and control conditions for the volume, speed, speed deviation, and headway variables for congested and uncongested traffic conditions. In addition, stepwise multiple linear regression was used to test the effects of rainfall on speed-volume and volume-occupancy relationships. Results of the matched pair t-tests indicated that volumes, speeds, and speed deviations dropped in event conditions, while headways increased slightly. Changes tended to be greater for congested than uncongested conditions. Linear regression results indicated that changes in speed were sensitive to volume conditions, and changes in volume were sensitive to occupancy, although only to a limited extent. Overall, drivers respond to rainfall conditions by reducing both speed and speed deviations, and increasing headway. Reductions in speed are larger in congested conditions, while increases in headway are smaller. Taken in combination, drivers are taking positive steps in order to either maintain or improve safety levels.
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Elisabeth, Smith Naessén. "Bakom gardinen : dräktmode och nakna kvinnokroppar 1600-2000." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1797.
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Uppsatsen behandlar gardinernas utveckling och relation till dräktmode och kvinnans kropp mellan 1600 och 2000. I uppsatsens första del undersöks representationer av gardiner i flamländskt 1600 tals måleri. Därefter behandlas 1700 och 1800 talens dekorerade gardiner, dess antika referenser och relation till dräktmode. Sängförhängets erotiska representationer i konsten och förhållande till den nakna kvinnokroppen undersöks i uppsatsens tredje del. Slutligen behandlas modernismens bortvalda gardiner, postmodernismens stilblandningar och samband med mode och kvinnans kropp idag. Bildanalyserna fokuserar på gardiner och sängförhängen, hur de representeras i måleri, illustrationer och fotografier samt hur de förhåller sig till bland annat dräktmode, kvinnans kropp antik skulptur, symbolik och allegoriska budskap. Gardiner har många betydelser bortom alla praktiska funktioner. De skyddar kroppens anständighet från blickar, kommunicerar status, smak och identitet. Gardiner har flera funktioner i bildkonsten, både symboliskt och kompositionsmässigt. De reflekterar till exempel stämningen i en bild, enkelhet, stillhet, ordning eller överflöd, rörelse och kaos. Gardiner var en stor inspirationskälla för 1700 och 1800 talens franska dräktmoden och dess namn och formspråk har ofta antika konnotationer. Modernismens arkitekter tog avstånd från antikens formspråk och valde bort gardiner. 1900 talet kännetecknas, liksom postmodernismen av stilblandningar. Alla gardintyper förekommer samtidigt, men i olika kontexter. Gardinmode kännetecknas liksom dräktmode av en ambivalens och det är problematiskt att tolka gardinernas betydelse och mening i olika sammanhang. Liksom dräktmode reflekterar de sin samtid och synen på kvinnans kropp i västerländsk kultur.The essay examines the evolution of curtains and relation to costume fashion and woman's body between 1600 and 2000. The first part of the essay examines representations of curtains in Flemish 17th century paintings. The 18th and 19th centurys decorated curtains, their antique references and relationship to fashion are examined in the second part. Erotic representations of bed curtains in art and its relationship to the naked body is examined in the third part of the essay. The final part is about modernism and the lack of curtains, postmodern mixture of styles and curtains relationship to fashion and woman's body today. The image analyzes are focusing on curtains and bed curtains, how they are represented in paintings, illustrations and photography, and how they relate to, for example, dress, antique sculpture, symbolic and allegorical messages Curtains has many functions in the visual arts, both symbolically and compositionally. They reflect, for example, the mood of an image, simplicity, serenity, order, or abundance, movement and chaos. Curtains were a great source of inspiration for 19th and 20th centurys French fashion and curtain terminology has often ancient connotations. Modernist architects disapproved with ancient idioms and choosed not to use curtains. The 20th century and postmodernism is characterized by style mixes. All curtain types occur simultaneously, but in different contexts. The fashion of curtains are, as costume fashion, characterized by ambivalence and it is difficult to interpret the meaning of curtains in different contexts. Curtains reflect, like costume fashion, the present and the perception of the female body in Western culture.
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DeLaney, Theodore Carter. "Julia Gardiner Tyler: A nineteenth-century Southern woman." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623870.
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This study examines the life of Julia Gardiner Tyler (1829-1889) as a means of learning more about elite southern women during the nineteenth-century. It addresses the fundamental question of how an ambitious woman could fulfill personal aspirations without openly defying gender conventions and focuses on a variety of themes affecting American women including: education, domesticity, slavery, politics, and religion.;Julia was a northerner by birth and education who adopted the South when she married President John Tyler in 1844. She enthusiastically embraced and defended southern culture and its definition of womanhood. Slavery shaped the social order and resulted in a system that emphasized female inferiority and limited women's lives to the domestic sphere. From the time John Tyler left the presidency in 1845 until his death in 1862, Julia focused on her household. She was a devoted wife and mother of seven children. A household staff made up of both white and black servants freed enough of Julia's time to permit her to keep abreast of political developments. In 1853 she published a defense of slavery that reaffirmed traditional southern womanhood.;Throughout the sectional crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction, Julia was a keen observer of political developments in both the North and the South. She was an ardent southern nationalist but was unprepared for the consequences of secession. Access to family members in the North became increasingly difficult as political and military tensions heightened. During the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, Julia and her children faced danger as opposing armies moved through their neighborhood. Unwilling to risk remaining in war torn Virginia, she moved into her mother's New York home in 1863 but did not find peace there. Politics divided her mother's household and resulted in violent arguments and a protracted court battle over the Gardiner estate. During Reconstruction, Julia petitioned the federal government for reimbursement for damages to her Virginia property and a presidential widow's pension, while struggling to leave the bitterness of the war behind.;This study concludes that Julia Tyler achieved personal fulfillment through her marriage to the President of the United States. as a widow, she was a strong independent woman who displayed interest in politics but never lost focus of her role as mother. Sometimes she defied social conventions but always reaffirmed traditional southern womanhood.
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Miller, Jennifer Wellington 1957. "Great gardens of the world: Preferences and perceptions." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291620.
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Professors of landscape architectural history of North America (domestic) and the rest of the world (international) were surveyed about the ten historic and five contemporary (since 1930) gardens they considered outstanding and to explain why. Additionally, ten comprehensive volumes of garden history were analyzed for their preferences. There was a 74% response rate to the domestic survey and 51.5% to the international survey. Over half of the respondents agreed on ten historic gardens. There was 31.2% agreement on five contemporary gardens. The literature is Eurocentric. Asia, Australia and modern gardens are described infrequently. No volume covered all the "great gardens." The survey results and literature characterize gardens similarly. Key elements or themes are described. Educational background may affect responses. Similar surveys of Asians and non-experts are recommended. Understanding the important themes will aid in better landscape planning and design.
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Strömberg, Ulf. "Project Garden." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1163.
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Denna slutreflektion beskriver mitt arbete med mitt kandidatarbete samt mina tankegånger under och efter projektet samt hur jag arbetat, de problem jag stött på och hur jag löst dem. Delarna av denna reflektion är först en beskrivning av vad jag gjort, därefter en beskrivning av hur detta projekt var tänkt att fungera. Den tredje delen är en beskrivning av hur jag arbetat under projektet, baserat på mina veckorapporter. Den fjärde delen är själva reflektionen och den beskriver mitt arbete i mer detalj samt mina tankar och funderingar och hur jag löst de problem som uppstått. Den sista delen är ett slutord där jag sammanfattar mina tankar om utbildningen och mitt projekt jämfört med de liknande spel som finns idag samt mina tankar kring genren i allmänhet.• Detta är en reflektionsdel till en digital medieproduktion.
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Moulton, Renee. "Bone Garden." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1528001.
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Bone Garden is a collection of poetry that inspects interpersonal communication and an often misguided sense of connection with others. Through investigations of memory, disaster, aging, and gender, the collection depicts a world in which many of us fruitlessly search for empathy and a sense of solidarity. Leading this investigation is a narrator whose frustrations with isolation often result in passive aggressive behavior or violence that furthers her separation from others. Bone Garden proposes solidarity as a salted plot and despair as the bitter fruit harvested by those who believe in it.
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Trulock, Todd S. "The Garden." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1838.
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Macías, Montero Milagros Del Carmen. "PTY Garden." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/146058.
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TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN ADMINISTRACIÓNPTY Garden supone la creación de una empresa dedicada a ofrecer el servicio de jardinería en el distrito de La Chorrera, provincia de Panamá Oeste, distante a 39.1 Kms del centro de la ciudad de Panamá. Su actividad principal será el mantenimiento, diseño y ejecución de zonas verdes y jardines en áreas residenciales. El proyecto cuenta con varios elementos diferenciadores, como lo son la apuesta por las nuevas tecnologías e innovación a la hora de diseñar paisajes vinculados a la jardinería Feng-shui y al uso de técnicas para la conservación y mantenimiento de jardines. El servicio está orientado a hombres y mujeres mayores de 25 años, que estén interesados en el mantenimiento de los jardines de sus residencias, por lo que se estima un tamaño de mercado de USD$15,114,390.00 dólares al año. La elección de la provincia de Panamá Oeste responde a 3 motivos principales: por un lado, en los últimos años la provincia ha presentado un crecimiento demográfico significativo, siendo el punto de mayor producción residencial del país. Fenómeno que se ha dado debido a que el 70% de los proyectos residenciales son de interés preferencial, ya que la Ciudad de Panamá no es capaz de cubrir la gran demanda de viviendas que exige la población, por lo que recurren a áreas aledañas a la ciudad donde residir. Otro motivo es que Panamá Oeste es considerada la “Ciudad Dormitorio”, ya que la mayoría de los ciudadanos que residen en esta zona, trabajan en la ciudad en jornadas extendidas, por lo que no disponen de tiempo para realizar actividades como la jardinería. El último y uno de los más relevantes motivos es que en La Chorrera no existe una empresa que brinde el servicio de jardinería, más bien empresas de jardinera en la ciudad deben viajar hasta la provincia para prestar sus servicios. Su equipo gestor está representado por Milagros Macias, Lic. En Ingeniera Marítima, con conocimiento y experiencia en servicio al cliente y manejo de personal. Además cuenta con habilidades en el diseño de jardines utilizando los módulos de AutoCAD. El análisis financiero realizado muestra que el proyecto es factible y que requiere de una inversión inicial de USD$45,000 dólares. El VAN que arroja es de USD$106,227.36 dólares, la TIR de 76% garantiza la capacidad adquisitiva si la tasa de descuento subiera y el análisis de sensibilidad muestra que existe un 69% de probabilidades de éxito en su ejecución, convirtiéndolo en un proyecto que espera una buena rentabilidad.
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Jeldes, Germán. "Grand Garden." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/142709.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magister en Administración (MBA)Chile y el mundo se encuentran en un proceso de cambio profundo, la población mayor de 60 años está aumentando, y el envejecimiento es cada día más extenso, mientras, la natalidad está disminuyendo. Saber con cuánto dinero se va a jubilar, hoy en día es fácil de determinar. Pero, la evolución en las distintas etapas de la vida está relacionada con el papel más o menos activo que desempeña el individuo en la sociedad, es frecuente que las personas suspendan sus obligaciones laborales por alguna razón y comiencen a depender cada vez más de sus familias, de su comunidad y por cierto de la sociedad. Por lo tanto, el Plan de Negocio está basado en el concepto de “Residencia para el adulto mayor”, pensando que la vejez es una etapa en la que todos en algún momento nos encontraremos, por lo que un ambiente especialmente diseñado para el adulto mayor, que integre sus necesidades, con una vida activa y un entorno que entregue, además de tranquilidad, oportunidades de realizar actividades de esparcimiento, rodeado de un ambiente que genere las condiciones para labores que mantengan al cuerpo y mente activa son la clave del éxito para satisfacer una necesidad que la oferta actual del mercado no cubre. Por lo anterior se ha definido como “Factor de Éxito”, contar con una ventaja competitiva que nos posicione como una de las empresas más confiables del mercado, con características diferenciadoras como son la infraestructura necesaria para la realización de actividades de integración, alianzas con hospitales e instituciones que contengan beneficios para nuestros adultos mayores, vida social activa con la comunidad donde se encontraran, transporte para trámites, visitas o traslado desde y hacia sus hogares, flora y fauna propia del lugar en donde este inserta la residencia, seguridad mediante conexión a través de WEB familiar y actividades de integración que aseguren a los clientes y familiares un lugar idóneo y confiable para sus adultos mayores. El Mercado Objetivo que “Grand Garden" identifico es en función a la cantidad de hogares que se encuentran en Santiago y alrededores, su ubicación geográfica, el precio por cada servicio y el nivel de ingresos de los familiares y clientes, llegando a apuntar al mercado ABC1 donde se encuentran 231 hogares de ancianos que representan el 51,9% del total y cuyos familiares o clientes están dispuestos a pagar por un servicio de cuidado de entre M$0.5 y M$1.8, dependiendo de la comuna y el servicio que se entregue, siendo estos servicios en más de un 95% solamente hospedaje y cuidado. La Inversión y modelo financiero que el proyecto requiere presenta una inversión inicial de M$65.- que los socios aportarán en partes iguales, cuyo destino es la compra del terreno para la construcción del bien, los gastos de puesta en marcha del negocio y la cobertura del déficit operacional que se requiere en el comienzo del proyecto, que tiene una duración de 4 meses. Al mismo tiempo se requiere conseguir la aprobación del proyecto y levantamiento de capital por un total de M$150, para esto, se ha diseñado nuestro modelo de negocios basado en la creación de valor para el accionista a través de un negocio rentable e innovador y con retorno esperado de un 19% (k0), tasa que corresponde a la del retorno requerido por el proyecto más el costo de endeudamiento o riesgo de inversión. La compañía creada, presentará ingresos, costos y dividendos que permiten resultados positivos al segundo año del proyecto, con un modelo de negocio innovador y familiar que crea ventajas competitivas en el mercado actual, los antecedentes financieros se encuentran revisados y analizados teniendo como resultado de la evaluación los datos adjuntos que se explican en el desarrollo de este proyecto.
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Franco, Nicole. "Grand Garden." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/142711.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magister en Administración (MBA)Chile y el mundo se encuentran en un proceso de cambio profundo, la población mayor de 60 años está aumentando, y el envejecimiento es cada día más extenso, mientras, que la natalidad está disminuyendo. Saber con cuánto dinero se va a jubilar, hoy en día es fácil de determinar. Pero, la evolución en las distintas etapas de la vida está relacionada con el papel más o menos activo que desempeña el individuo en la sociedad, es frecuente que las personas suspendan sus obligaciones laborales por alguna razón y comiencen a depender cada vez más de sus familias, de su comunidad y por cierto de la sociedad. Por lo tanto, el Plan de Negocio está basado en el concepto de Residencia para el adulto mayor, pensando que la vejez es una etapa en la que todos en algún momento nos encontraremos, por lo que un ambiente especialmente diseñado para el adulto mayor, que integre sus necesidades, con una vida activa y un entorno que entregue, además de tranquilidad, oportunidades de realizar actividades de esparcimiento, rodeado de un ambiente que genere las condiciones para labores que mantengan al cuerpo y mente activa son la clave del éxito para satisfacer una necesidad que la oferta actual del mercado no cubre. Por lo anterior se ha definido como Factor de Éxito, contar con una ventaja competitiva que nos posicione como una de las empresas más confiables del mercado, con características diferenciadoras como son la infraestructura necesaria para la realización de actividades de integración, alianzas con hospitales e instituciones que contengan beneficios para nuestros adultos mayores, vida social activa con la comunidad donde se encontraran, transporte para trámites, visitas o traslado desde y hacia sus hogares, flora y fauna propia del lugar en donde este inserta la residencia, seguridad mediante conexión a través de WEB familiar y actividades de integración que aseguren a los clientes y familiares un lugar idóneo y confiable para sus adultos mayores. El Mercado Objetivo que Grand Garden identifico es en función a la cantidad de hogares que se encuentran en Santiago y alrededores, su ubicación geográfica, el precio por cada servicio y el nivel de ingresos de los familiares y clientes, llegando a apuntar al mercado ABC1 donde se encuentran 231 hogares de ancianos que representan el 51,9% del total y cuyos familiares o clientes están dispuestos a pagar por un servicio de cuidado de entre M$0.5 y M$1.8, dependiendo de la comuna y el servicio que se entregue, siendo estos servicios en más de un 95% solamente hospedaje y cuidado. La Inversión y modelo financiero que el proyecto requiere presenta una inversión inicial de M$65 que los socios aportarán en partes iguales, cuyo destino es la compra del terreno para la construcción del bien, los gastos de puesta en marcha del negocio y la cobertura del déficit operacional que se requiere en el comienzo del proyecto, que tiene una duración de 4 meses. Al mismo tiempo se requiere conseguir la aprobación del proyecto y levantamiento de capital por un total de M$150, para esto se ha diseñado nuestro modelo de negocios basado en la creación de valor para el accionista a través de un negocio rentable e innovador y con retorno esperado de un 19% (k0), tasa que corresponde a la de retorno requerida por el proyecto más el costo de endeudamiento o riesgo de inversión. La compañía creada presentará ingresos, costos y dividendos que permiten resultados positivos al segundo año del proyecto, con un modelo de negocio innovador y familiar que creará ventajas competitivas en el mercado actual, los antecedentes financieros se encuentran revisados y analizados.