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City garden

‘A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space.’

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Brian Redondo

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December 10, 2011, 12:04PM

Reminds me of vertical gardens like the massive one Portland is trying to build on the side of a major downtown office building: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/31portland.html

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Szilvia Varga

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December 05, 2011, 10:31PM

This also reminds me of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and how we could find the '7 wonders of reclaiming our environment' and brand them to create publicity around them. (http://www.openideo.com/open/vibrant-cities/inspiration/the-7-wonders-of-reclaiming-our-environment/)

Does this make any sense to you?

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