Agriculture in cities has always existed although it is typically considered a rural activity. In fact, many cities have evolved from agrarian roots, settling on the agricultural lands that are most productive. However, urban ...

The intensive building and construction development in cities and wban spaces causes number of serious problems that constrain city life. The last dccades Landscape Architects arc trying to find alternative solutions to ...

Palms is one of the most important plant families, with great contribution to human aesthetic and use. Planted in groups, combined with other plants, or separately, their elegant form is impressive and imposes to the ...

Στα πλαίσια της προετοιμασίας της Ελλάδας για τους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες τυ 2004 προγραμματίστηκαν και υλοποιήθηκαν πολλά έργα όπως: -Αθλητικές εγκαταστάσεις (π.χ Ο.Α.Κ.Α., Κωπηλατοδρόμιο Σχινιά, Εγκαταστάσεις στο Ελληνικό, ...

The present paper deals with the usefulness of outdoor spaces of nursing institutions which we name "therapeutic" gardens. A therapeutic garden offers a locality where the patients and their healers might achieve the ...

This paper aims to explore the vertical gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx as an artistic expression of a common design feature, prevalent in landscape architectural discourse and practice since the 1930s. The contribution ...

This paper examined users’ preferences for landscape design of grounds and spaces surrounding hospitals, in order to assess how they perceived the landscape facilities so as to make future open spaces of hospitals suitable ...

Urban public space is not a phenomenon of the twenty first century. It originated with the public parks of the mid-nineteenth century which were a considerable part of the urban fabric (Chadwick, 1966). Urban parks and ...

This paper investigates how vegetation, mainly through evapotranspiration, affects the improvement of microclimatic conditions in urban areas and, more specifically, it examines the case for the city of Chania in Crete. ...

Greenways are corridors of undevoped land in a city setting. They include vegeration belts, creeks, rivers,floodplains and other natural features along public infrastructures. Public infrastructures consist of utility ...