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Planning and good design feed an urban family

“The woman over the back — she’s from an Italian family — is the only other person around here with a vegetable garden. There’s all this land in backyards going to waste, just growing lawn. The only useful trees in gardens, directly useful to people that is, is the unused lemon tree next door, an unharvested Magenta Lillypilly ( ) a couple houses down and my mandarin tree.

“One of the reasons for redesigning the garden was to make suburban living more sustainable in a food and in an environmental sense, so we do not have to buy food that is imported great distances and so we can make effective use of our kitchen and garden wastes to make compost”.

First, the design

When Fiona set out to design the food garden she quickly discovered the site’s limiting factors. These were a nutrient-poor, sandy soil, a large Jacaranda tree at the northern end of the garden and a neighbour’s tall oleanders that cast long shadows over the garden, making up to two-thirds of the site unusable in winter.

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A Landscape Continuously Unfolding

The Renaissance established the codes of traditional Western perspective. A specific geometry, originating from a line at the viewer’s eye level, constructs a third dimension according to one or more fixed vanishing points placed along that line. Perspective thus establishes a precise point in space to which all other points relate. Space is here defined by points, straight lines and planes. Perspectival art renders space uniform, where the subjects are framed and fixed in position. In contrast to this code, Chinese art uses black outlines to draw the subjects and a variety of tones to produce details. Motifs are repeated and the subject matter often extends past the picture plane. Chinese calligraphy, moreover, focuses strictly on line work. As Chinese art and graphic expression is, in essence, a graphic of two dimensions, it questions the visual representation of depth and space. Hanging in the National Palace Museum in Taipei is “Countless Peaks and Vales,” an eight...

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News

Changing Skyline: Getting a birds-ey...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Aug 28, 2009

Changing Skyline: Getting a bird#39;s-eye view of the treesThe exhibit#39;s indirect pathways took their inspiration from the traditional Chinese garden. Set on small scraps of land, those green oases rely on a complex and morenbsp;raquo;

Museum and Gallery Listings

New York Times - Aug 27, 2009

An awesome spectacle awaits visitors to the museum#39;s roof garden: a gnarly thicket of trees and branches extending 130 feet from one end of the open-air and morenbsp;raquo;

Allegany Arts Councils September 200...

Appalachian Independent - Aug 29, 2009

Allegany Arts Council#39;s September 2009 EventsSeptember 11, 7-10PM Chinese Bandits will perform as part of Summer in the City#39;s Friday After Five music series on the Downtown Cumberland Mall.

Katy Perry to Perform at Hong Kong Ho...

Luxury Travel Magazine - Aug 26, 2009

Katy Perry to Perform at Hong Kong Hotel OpeningJoining the restaurants will be a stunning fifth floor rooftop garden lounge. A quintessential al fresco venue, it is perfect for unwinding in style and and morenbsp;raquo;

Luxury inside: business boutique and ...

台北時報 - Aug 28, 2009

Luxury inside: business boutique and style on the cheapBali-style batik upholstery can be found on a few chairs, while many rooms have prints of ink bamboo paintings and Chinese calligraphy.

Weld ace white hot ahead of Curragh

The Press Association - Aug 26, 2009

Chinese White is in quot;unbelievablequot; form ahead of this weekend#39;s Dance Design Stakes at the Curragh. Dermot Weld#39;s four-year-old oozed class in beating Roman and morenbsp;raquo;

Rovers chef to hang his hat at bistr...

Seattle Times - Aug 27, 2009

Rover#39;s chef to hang his hat at bistro LucLunch at Sea Garden? Count me in. Yo, chef! Pass the shrimp! quot;I#39;ve been here for 22 years,quot; Thierry says of his professional home in the heart of Madison and morenbsp;raquo;