Urban Gardens» Rooftop Gardens | Urban Gardens | Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces http://www.urbangardensweb.com Unlimited Thinking For Limited Spaces Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Inside Peek at New York Urban Gardens http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2010/07/13/inside-peek-at-new-york-urban-gardens/ http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2010/07/13/inside-peek-at-new-york-urban-gardens/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:00:46 +0000 Robin Plaskoff Horton http://www.urbangardensweb.com/?p=4359

I admit was riddled with garden envy when I attended an urban gardens tour a few weeks ago presented by the French Institute Alliance Française of New York as part of their Art de Vivre series. Curated by Marie-Dominique Deniau Sorman, former Madame Figaro garden…

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Welcome the itinerant gardener, not the one who travels from plot to plot, but the one whose community gardens travel from spot to spot. We’ve written about mobile gardens before, but these self-contained gardens go beyond being simply plant-growing mobile allotments, they…

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Scheduled to break ground in early 2011, Forwarding Dallas, the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe. The design was…

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Green walls enclose living area of Elot House

The owner of this urban garden house expressed his dream about living in a “forest” setting amidst the urbanized city of Singapore and his architect, Chang Yong Ter of Chang Architects,  interpreted the dream. In…

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Terreform One, a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities, is launching the One Prize Award–Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn: an international design competition for creating productive green space in cities.

Through their creative projects and outreach efforts,…

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In a village outside of Hyderabad, South India, Nagamani and Swathi, sisters attending Women’s Education Project’s Ushassu program, climb to their flat roof to collect vegetables for the families’ dinner.

Picking tomatoes and beans, they discuss how this small garden, planted on a…

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1. Farming Freedom and Hope After Katrina

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2. Honey I’m Home! High Hives for Urban Beekeepers

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3. The Future’s Looking Up on a Rooftop Farm

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4. Window Farms: Getting the Hang of Urban Farming in Your Own Apartment

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5. Rain Barrels: It’s Pouring with Sustainable,…

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A Japanese firm, Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects, have designed a tree house situated on a 323 square foot site for a couple in Osaka .

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Their concept is based on sustainable systems. Structural columns intertwine like ivy supporting slabs on each floor, and soil…

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Monday, November 9th at 7pm, The Theater for the New City, will present Raising the Roof, a benefit for its Green Roof Project.

Actress and singer Tammy Grimes and actress Betsy von Furstenberg, both longtime friends of Theater for the…

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With a bold goal to “Save the Plants, Save the Planet,” the Chicago Botanic Garden has scheduled the opening of the Plant Science Center for members on September 22, and for the general public on September 23.

“One-third of the world’s plants…

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