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Planting Design Sourcebook
No full textTeaching Resource prepared for DLB320 Landscape Horticulture (2015)\ud
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This Planting Design Sourcebook is the essential\ud
guide to developing phytophilic design\ud
sensibilities, as well as constructing design\ud
processes suitable for various situations, and\ud
deciding how best to manipulate plants for\ud
effective uses for humankind
Cultivation
No full textThe interest in potentially economically valuable plants (for food, timber, dyes, fabric, and drugs) was part of the concerted effort given by colonial governments towards providing botanic gardens in new colonies. While convicts and guards laboured in Brisbane Town from 1825 until 1849, botanists such as Alan Cunningham were discovering the delights of native plants in their numerous excursions. Their observations and collections of seeds were sent south (to the local botanic gardens at Melbourne and Sydney) and onward to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Britain (at Kew and Edinburgh). This set the local pattern for future exchanges among the global British Imperial botanic garden network..
PEOPLE and PLACE: lecture notes and workshops
No full textThis a compilation of lecture notes and tutorial workshops that were prepared for the former QUT unit DLB310 People and Place. This unit introduced second year students to fundamental ideas about environmental psychology and cultural landscape theory for landscape architects
Encyclopedia contributions: entries C-G in Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
No full textCaulfield, Harold William; p.131\ud
Cowan, Alexander; p.164\ud
Cowley, Ebenezer; p.164\ud
East Talgai Station; p.193\ud
Eaves, S.H.; p.193-194\ud
Edgar, J.S.; p.196\ud
Everist, Selwyn; p.206\ud
Experimental Farms and Gardens; pp.207-208\ud
Government Houses - Queensland; pp.267-26
Inventory of historic cultural landscapes in Queensland : final report : stage 1 : 1996
No full textThe Inventory of Historic Cultural Landscapes in Queensland (IHCLQ) project began with a simple goal: to identify significant landscapes in Queensland. It has become much more than that. All sorts of data have been accumulated concerning the history of landscape design in Queensland: all important background information in understanding which landscapes are significant. Thus, the scope of this final report incorporates a seminal description and evaluation of reference sources, some workable typologies about the broader cultural landscape and a framework for assessing landscape significance
South Brisbane Case Study
No full textThe urban case study area occupies the 'peninsula' bounded by the Brisbane River immediately south of the Brisbane city centre
Report 2: Thematic study of the cultural landscape of Queensland: a multi-theoretical analysis of Queensland history using the themes of climate, land, development, perception, people and landscape, and interpreting the landscape as text / Edited by Jeannie Sim
Get PDFThe Project "Investigating Queensland's Cultural Landscapes: CONTESTED TERRAINS" was funded by ARC-SPIRT grant (1997-1999). The participants in this project included members of the Cultural Landscape Research Unit (QUT) with the industry partner being the Queensland Government's Environmental Protection Agency (Cultural Heritage Branch). An ePrint for this item is available at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/7072
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