Add to ORKGThe Montreal Botanical Garden, a 180-acre complex comprised of over thirty outdoor and ten indoor landscapes located in the city's east-end, is the product of a Depression-era government funded Public Works project. Its founding director, preeminent botanist Frère Marie-Victorin, drew from and expanded upon four hundred years of western botanical studies and garden planning to realize the Garden. In this thesis, the factors which inspired him, particularly his perceived need of such an institution to fulfill the purposes of popular botanical education for the masses through attracting and instructing local and foreign visitors, and the provision of a place where people could commune with nature, are explored. In recent years, the function ...
Detail, lotus plants; The garden was designed by Japanese landscape artist Ken Nakajima, who gave it...
In the 1970s, while the City of New York was facing a serious social and economic crisis, some resid...
The Brussels Botanical Garden has always been a battlefield for various and sometimes unexpected for...
This thesis sets out to theorize the social and political agency of public gardens, and to find a me...
Because they include living materials and are influenced by the fluctuating conditions ofnature, gar...
Abstract: As leaders calling for the conservation of the world忆s plants, botanical gardens protect p...
Visitor path through the maple forest; The First Nations Garden (one of the gardens of the Montreal ...
The Montréal Botanical Garden was founded, in 1931, by the remarkable botanist and scientist, catho...
In these proceedings from a conference held in Montreal in 2000, 14 specialists on the nature/cultur...
Drawing from work in progress at a series of somewhat neglected public gardens in Montreal, this art...
This article uses a surprising horticultural event—an unplanned, collective ‘theft’ of plants from t...
Hosted by the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva (CJBG)We must cultivate our ga...
This design project extends VanDusen Botanical Garden into the city through a network of satellite ...
One enters the building from the dense city areas to the lawn and begins the transition into the pro...
The Man Who Planted Trees (entry by Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal); distant view; The no...
Detail, lotus plants; The garden was designed by Japanese landscape artist Ken Nakajima, who gave it...
In the 1970s, while the City of New York was facing a serious social and economic crisis, some resid...
The Brussels Botanical Garden has always been a battlefield for various and sometimes unexpected for...
This thesis sets out to theorize the social and political agency of public gardens, and to find a me...
Because they include living materials and are influenced by the fluctuating conditions ofnature, gar...
Abstract: As leaders calling for the conservation of the world忆s plants, botanical gardens protect p...
Visitor path through the maple forest; The First Nations Garden (one of the gardens of the Montreal ...
The Montréal Botanical Garden was founded, in 1931, by the remarkable botanist and scientist, catho...
In these proceedings from a conference held in Montreal in 2000, 14 specialists on the nature/cultur...
Drawing from work in progress at a series of somewhat neglected public gardens in Montreal, this art...
This article uses a surprising horticultural event—an unplanned, collective ‘theft’ of plants from t...
Hosted by the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva (CJBG)We must cultivate our ga...
This design project extends VanDusen Botanical Garden into the city through a network of satellite ...
One enters the building from the dense city areas to the lawn and begins the transition into the pro...
The Man Who Planted Trees (entry by Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal); distant view; The no...
Detail, lotus plants; The garden was designed by Japanese landscape artist Ken Nakajima, who gave it...
In the 1970s, while the City of New York was facing a serious social and economic crisis, some resid...
The Brussels Botanical Garden has always been a battlefield for various and sometimes unexpected for...