Landscape architecture

Introduction This essay is a critical analysis of the poem Shower by the Australian writer Les Murray. Les Murray was born in 1938 in New South Wales/Australia. He grew up in a poor farming family, and his love for nature and the Australian landscapes, which shows in his poetry, developed early. Murray writes about his “love of the land, the tensions between rural and urban life”, and “the struggle for an independent means of expression” (Poetry archive, date unknown)1. The poem Shower is, as…

Beauty, fragrance, low-maintenance, self-seeding and thrives on minimal water. Sounds like the perfect maintenance-free flower that all gardeners want in their landscapes. There are eight of those perfect flowers that will self-seed, grow well in low-water conditions and come back in all their fragrant beauty year after year. Blue Flax Blue flax is a short-lived perennial with a unique characteristic - each plant produces a small blue flower for only one day. A grouping of blue flax will…

As my selection for an urban park, I chose Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works – a uniquely “urban” ecosystem located in the city’s core. Formerly Toronto’s chief brick manufacturing facility, Brick Works has since been converted into a wholly committed city park, devoted to the preservation of greenspace, integration of natural ecosystems into the urban environment and educational facilitation. Among the ecosystem services, Brickworks largely focuses on supporting and cultural values in its…

INTRODUCTION A dog park is a fenced-off land that often times is next to a park, a place where dogs can run without a leash. Dog parks have become very popular throughout urban areas for the limited amount of space. In the City of El Paso there are currently three dog parks located at: West side Don Haskins Community Center, Album Park and near Esperanza Moreno Park. The goal of this paper is to approve a new dog park in the City of El Paso. DOG PARK Benefits of a dog park in the community…

Some said of the Australian Outback that God never crossed west of the Great Dividing Range. God, of course, had a choice. Not so Durham, exiled to fly-blown Hughenden. The Sub-Inspector and Mrs Durham arrived to a barren landscape dusted in parched hues of thirsty brown, the clay soil of the basaltic plain cracked for want of rain. Mobs of cattle lay slumped amid tufts of dead grass. Occasional gum trees offered scant shade. Dogs panted. Crows flew lazy circles. Dust storms stifled breath.…

poem Dransfield describes the landscape and then the tempo quickly changes when the poet starts to describe what is happening and what may happen in the next few years to come. Within this poem, Australia is represented as a nation which has stolen the aboriginals’ land and heritage and changing the landscape from what it used to be like. Subject Matter – main idea present in the poem Throughout this poem Dransfield presents many ideas to the reader, such as the landscape being worn away by…

When people think of landscaping, they often think of perfectly mowed lawns and beautifully weeded flowerbeds. While perfectly mowed lawns and beautifully weeded flowerbeds are important parts of landscaping, there is far more to landscaping than just the lawn and the weed free flowerbeds. Even if you can handle taking care of your grass and flowerbeds on your own, here are many reasons you may need the help of a landscaping company to create your perfect outdoor space. Creating an Outdoor…

In the book’s The Burnt Stick, and My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, I learned a lot about the people and animals of Australia. The reason I chose these books, is because I wanted to contrast the people and the animals. In the book The Burnt Stick, the information presented was very realistic. In the situation in the book it is told by a man who was actually taken from his family, his name is John Jagmarra. He was taken away at only the age of five. Although this story is only based on a true one,…

The narrative starts with a dull tone, capturing the bleakness of the Australian bush. The use of imperative provides the audience with an image unchanging landscape by imitating an artist painting an artwork. The mundane description of the struggles of man, depicts the barren nature of the bush, as well as encapsulate the sources of conflict, forcing individuals to abandon their inhospitable home and search…

Cultural landscapes are everywhere in our world today whether we are aware of them or not. Before we can look at the cultural landscape if the city of New Kensington, we must understand what they are and what we can learn from them through observation. Cultural landscapes are defined as the places we, humans, live. A cultural landscape is the cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and man. Other definitions include a geographic area, including both cultural and natural…