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Philadelphia Flower Show Draws Some Ooh La La!
A planted car in The Auto Salvage Garden, created by Delaware Valley College. With Edith Piaf ‘s La Vie en Rose in the air, it was Springtime in Paris this year at the Philadelphia International...
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More Urban Garden Ideas From the Golden State
As I peered through the cut out of a beautiful metal screen into landscape architect Jeffrey Gordon Smith’s award-winning installation, Pi r Squared, for the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, I...
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Eco-Chic Pet Houses Offer Creature Comforts
Matthew Coates designed this green roof dog house from reclaimed materials. Via Kitsap Sun. I’ve stumbled across some purr-fect eco-chic cat and dog houses that will make tails wag and…well, you get...
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Touring Los Angeles Modern Homes and Gardens
Passing a yin-yang floor mosaic that leads to the front door. Photo: Robin Horton. On a warm Saturday at the end of June, armed with a GPS, I navigated around the labyrinth of Los Angeles freeways and...
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New York City Residence With Four Terraces
When JoJo Demirel and her husband Baris moved into their new place in Red Hook, Brooklyn last April, their first order of business was to put up a greenhouse. The couple had always shared a love of...
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NYC Rooftop Farm Classroom Cultivates Minds
The Greenhouse on the roof of Public School 333 in Manhattan. Photo: Ari Burling A 1400-square foot smart and sustainable hydroponic urban farm sits on the third floor rooftop of a New York City...
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China’s Growing Urban Population Sprouts Urban Farms
Illustration: Guillermo Munro for the China Daily. In response to its growing urbanization, China is reinventing the “garden city” concept in order to create space for both its urban and its displaced...
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Green Roofed Paris Shelter Offers WiFi and City Guides
Who isn’t looking for a small peaceful urban haven at which to chill out, check email, figure out what’s next? For an urban development project commissioned by the city of Paris, JCDecaux, inventor of...
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My Rooftop-to-Table Dinner at Rosemary’s
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens I began this week dining with a foodie friend at Rosemary’s, the latest addition to New York City’s restaurants with rooftop gardens and farms. Though our...
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New York City Urban Farms After Hurricane Sandy
Battery Urban Farm. Photo via the Battery Conservancy. Hurricane Sandy’s wrath caused the damage and demise of a number of New York City urban gardens and farms, some less fortunate than others....
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Modular Compact Green Roof System
Conventional ‘roll out’ green roof systems are not feasible for certain roof conditions. Some systems are bulky, built like mattresses, require specialized teams to measure and survey the site, can be...
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New York City Farm and Culinary Hotel Concept
We love this cool hotel concept: The Allotment, a hotel whose culinary focus makes growing and cooking food the fundamental ingredient of the guest experience. This was the grand prize winner of the...
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The Cocktail Gardener Cultivates Garden Pop-Up Bar on London Rooftop
Photo via Eleanor Salton Thorne. Known for her seasonal garden cocktails and infusions using cultivated and foraged herbs and flowers, Lottie Muir (aka The Cocktail Gardener), mixes it up at Midnight...
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Phyto Kinetic: Green Roofs for City Buses and Improved Urban Ecosystem
For Marc Grañén, the test of his concept was the reaction from his young children. When he told his kids, ages 6 and 9, about his idea for creating green roofs for city buses, the boys began drawing...
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8 Trend-Setting European Urban Garden Designers and Horticulturalists
Luciano Giobbilei project in Barcelona. Urban gardening is on the increase. And no more so than in Europe, where some remarkable talents are driving many of the world’s urban gardening trends. Urban...
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New York City’s Intervale Green Rooftop Urban Farm Cultivates More Than Food
When thinking of the Bronx, the northernmost of New York City’s five boroughs, one might think first of Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, or the New York Botanical Garden. But what about farming? Up...
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Japanese Commuters Tending Train Station Rooftop Gardens
Oh how dreadful that morning commute can be. Even with the help of podcasts, books, game apps, 16 gigs of music– it can still be a soul draining bore. Good news! Japan may have come up with a cure to...
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One Aquaponic Rooftop Farm to Go Please
It’s hard to disagree with the fact that urban rooftops could provide a huge playground for urban farmers. Rooftop gardens do exist of course, but in a city like New York with an endless number of...
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Sneak Peek: Dwell on Design Los Angeles Home Tour
Dawnsknoll House, Photo: Art Gray After many years on the east coast, I’m lucky to be back in Southern California (aka the left coast) where I grew up. I’m not missing winter one bit, and if I have a...
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Conversations On a Small Island to Accelerate Positive Change on the Planet
Turtle Island’s solar farm and five-acre organic garden. Monica Laurence exudes positive energy and is resolute in her mission to drive conversation toward creating positive change for the planet....
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