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Why build Chinese cities like Baroque gardens?
It is said that the Baroque style of planting design originated in France, and was for show. A ‘Cartesian’ geometry was used to create avenues, canals and parterres. The master plans of Baroque Garden had outspreading geometric forms. It was a western aesthetic which respected geometry as [...]
Growing Papaver somniferum (right pics) in your garden is legal in the UK but not in the US. Converting it to opium or morphine is illegal in both countries. Erythroxylon coca (left pics) is the source of cocaine, which was a legal ingredient in Coca Cola until 1903. Opium was banned in China, in 1799. [...]
Brochs are a unique building form, dating from the 1st century BC and indigenous to Scotland. They had internal wooden floors and they were inhabited. This is clear. But how they were located and why they were built is unclear. Gordon Childe interpreted brochs as fortifications from which chiefs ruled subject populations. Since no [...]
As the above and below photographs show, it is a good idea to test ideas at the small scale and the human scale before building them at full scale. This also applies to city building: ideas should be tested at the garden scale before being built at the city scale. There are three advantages to [...]
This tapestry (dated 1710-20) was rescued from a fire at Stoke Edith Park in 1927 (see aerial photo of Stoke Edith today). It shows a garden which may have belonged to Stoke Edith House and which may have been designed by George London. It is the principal section of a compartment garden, designed for walking [...]