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Resilient places? The healthcare gardens and the Maggie's Centres
No full textThis thesis takes as its focus the Maggie’s Cancer Centres exploring for the first time the impact of their designed gardens. This research is situated within the immediate context of Maggie’s ambitions as an organisation and looks closely at their design process. It is also set within the wider debates about the effects of green space on health and the historical context of the restorative garden. By exploring both historical and contemporary examples, it argues that a healthcare garden may be a space for transformation.
Using four different Maggie’s gardens as case studies, the research seeks to investigate the role of these outdoor spaces and their impact on users. Through ethnographic and sensory methods, each garden is considered and mapped. It looks at the design brief and the intentions of the designers’, but the core work is an exploration of the experiences of staff and visitors. The focus is on the everyday use of these gardens as well as the design historiography. The experiences of gardens within healthcare are examined in order to expose the ways in which gardens, people, health and care are entwined.
Through the qualitative research process this thesis develops a new hypothesis as to how healthcare gardens may operate – offering a new definition for them as “resilient places”. Careful analysis of the data reveals the specific networks and affordances presented by these gardens. The thesis argues, based on the evidence of users, that healthcare gardens can uniquely embrace certain “essences” where essence is defined as conveying a quality or attribute. These garden essences are identified as thresholds, sensory richness, the density of time and homeliness. The thesis also argues that a healthcare garden can provide specific and unique opportunities for care and this, in turn, can enhance the healing ethos of an organisation such as Maggie’s
Mountain Lake Sanctuary Director's Report from 29 December to 5 January 1934
No full textThis is the weekly director's report made by Major Harry M. Nornabell, then director of Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens), to the American Foundation. The report details weather conditions for the week, the condition of the gardens and birds, a visitor and staff count, and details of a New Year's Day wedding of two couples from Orlando that took place after the midnight carillon concert on New Year's Eve. Major Nornabell also mentions a visit from Rilla Evelyn Jackman, likely the author of American Arts (1928) and former arts educator at Syracuse University.Computer generated transcript is available upon request
[Funeral of Edward W. Bok]
No full texteye-level views;Edward William Bok was born 9 October 1863 in Den Helder, Netherlands. He become a noted author and publisher of "The Ladies Home Journal" and was involved in many social causes and philanthropic activities, including the creation of the Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens). Mr. Bok passed away on 9 January 1930 at his winter home in Mountain Lake Colony in Lake Wales, Florida. A funeral was held on 10 January 1930 inside the Singing Tower and Mr. Bok was interred in front of the tower
[Letter 1930 January], New York City [to] Mrs. Edward W. Bok, Merion, Pennsylvania
No full textThis is a letter from H. Van Buren Magonigle, an architect and author best known for his memorials, to Mary Louise Curtis Bok upon hearing the news of Edward W. Bok's death. Mr. Bok was the former editor of Ladies' Home Journal and the founder of the Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower (now Bok Tower Gardens). Mrs. Bok was his wife and the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The stationary on which the letter is written folds at the top. The letter is hand written in black ink. In the upper right corner in black ink 'C' may indicate a response was sent. Mr. Magonigle's name is written out in pencil below his signature by an unknown hand. 'One hundred and one Park Avenue' is printed in raised letters.Computer generated transcript is available upon request
British botanical gardens in the 1980s : changes reflected by bibliographical and social survey.
No full text1) British botanical gardens in the 1980s represent the latest stage in their long history dating from the Middle Ages. Origins lie in different types of institution:religious; academic;economic; amateur; scientific; and municipal. This diversity explains the variety of modern institutions involved with gardens, which may be recognized in four categories: state;
university; local authority; and private societies.
(2) The relationship of the gardens to the community is central to this study. Emphasis is placed on public views of them. (A small sample survey was conducted to obtain the ideas of the public about their functions.)(3) A questionnaire was sent to relevant gardens, enquiring about possible international relationships based on European twinning schemes.(4) Many influences are seen to contribute to the substantial changes evident in the activities of British botanical gardens today. New developments are considered, e.g. increased
leisure and consequent need for recreation
activities; transport facilities; influence
of the mass media, especially television;
conservation schemes; and current financial
stringency. Some scientific advances (e.g.
micropropagation) and technical progress (e.g.
labour-saving machinery) are mentioned.
(5) Six main functions of the gardens are identified
and considered in detail: teaching and research;
economic botany; horticulture; amenity; public
in.iormation arid education services, public
recreation facilities; and conservation. The
functions are reviewed in relation to overlap
with those of other modern institutions (e.g.
research stations), and other types of garden.
(6) Sheffield Botanical Gardens - seen in their
historical context - provide a good example of
change affecting a nineteenth-century institution
adapted to the 1980s. The Gardens' importance
to the local community is assessed from informal
enquiries.
(7) A bibliography of non-specialized material is
included. Most chapters contain a literature
section with notes on important published
material. (8) Findings include: the contribution, uniquely
made by academic botanical gardens, to teaching
and research; the importance in all the
gardens of public information and education
services and recreation facilities; the
significance of conservation activities within
a national and international framework
Third places and social capital: case study community gardens
No full textThis chapter explores the literature on community gardens and the author’s recent research which investigated community gardens against third place characteristics in a range of locations in Australia and Denmark. All of the case study community gardens exhibited most or all of the eight third place characteristics and some were particularly effective third places. The theoretical framework used is social capital and more specifically, Gravonetter’s ‘weak ties’. The chapter illustrates community gardens as third places with examples from community garden literature and three of the case study community gardens investigated by the author. The findings provide insights for better design of third places and the design of community gardens, where building social capital and sense of community is a goal.No Full Tex
Suzhou Classical Gardens: The content, value and protection process of Suzhou Classical Gardens
No full textThis historic thesis is about the content, value and protection of Suzhou Classical Gardens. The author finds a clue that implies a historical timeline in these three aspects, and provides readers with an opportunity to have a more comprehensive understanding of Suzhou Classical Gardens. And this clue is based on the three different subjects: the creator, the interpreter and the protector of the garden as the starting point. The author elaborated on their relationship with the garden in different chapters.AR2A011Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Renaissance Gardens and Tapestry as a Microcosm
No full textThis essay introduces the reader to the diversity and cultural and historical issues of the development of gardens during the Renaissance in Europe. Starting from the examination of the tapestries in the exhibition, the author shows how these ideal views reflect the characteristics of the garden renaissance: references to antiquity, interest in the study of nature and architecture, role of the garden in the collections exhibitio
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