References
Coble, Sarah FK (2005). "Apples from Asphalt." Dwell, Vol. 5, No. 3, Jan/Feb, pp. 98-100 (Article about City Farm's Mobile City Farmstead).
Shearin, Rhonda (2003). "You Bette! From Bathhouse to Boathouse, Midler is Part of the Solution." Landscape Architecture, Vol. 93, No. 11, November, pp. 15-16.
Starescheski, Amy. "New York Community Gardens." Land Forum, Vol. 04, pp. 90-93 (Article about NYC community gardens when Guiliani tried to get rid of them; nice photos).
Green, Lee (2000). "Learning by Doing." Spirit, (Southwest Airlines Magazine), pp. 30-34 (Article on "Food From the Hood," a student-owned garden and salad dressing business in South Central Los Angeles).
Hynes, H. Patricia (1996). A Patch of Eden: America's Inner-City Gardens. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
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FENG SHUI & VASTU
Many designers use feng shui, an ancient Chinese discipline rooted in Taoism, in creating restorative landscapes. Some designers use feng shui principles in concert with other techniques.
Vastu is "the design-architecture-sacred space tradition from ancient India that creates a healing, nourishing, supportive effect that radiates into the environment. It requires the use of natural materials, beauty, honoring of nature, and attunement with the directions and the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and space. It is applicable to landscape and gardens as well as architectural structures." - Sherri Silverman, Ph.D., Transcendence Design. www.transcendencedesign.com
"Feng Shui can...be seen as a creative and intuitive philosophy that blends common sense with prudent design to create a more balanced environment...The practice has developed into a system of holistic design that studies the way in which our surroundings affect our wellbeing, happiness, and success." - Romy Rawlings, Healing Gardens.
The Feng Shui and Vastu markets have exploded in the last five years, and we have listed only a few of the many resources now available. For more comprehensive lists of references, organizations, and other websites, visit some of the links listed on the LINKS page.
References
Clunas, C. (1996). Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. Duke University Press.
Li, Jane (2000). "Workplaces Apply Principles of Feng Shui." The Santa Fe New Mexican, May 21, pp. D1, D4.
Lip, E. (1979). Chinese Geomancy. Times Books International.
O'Connell, Kim (1999). "The Harmony of Spaces." Landscape Architecture Magazine, Volume 89, No. 9, September, pp. 102-126 (Article on the use of Feng Shui in landscape design).
Rawlings, Romy (1998). "Feng Shui." in Healing Gardens, Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press, pp. 39-63.
Rossback, S. (1983). Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement. Penguin Books.
Silverman, Sherri (2007). Vastu: Transcendental Home Design in Harmony with Nature. Gibbs Smith, Publisher.
You can order this book through Sherri's Transcendence Design website:
http://transcendencedesign.com/products/
Too, L. (1996). Feng Shui: The Complete Illustrated Guide. Element Books, Ltd.
Wong, Eva (1996). Feng Shui: The Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living for Modern Times. Shambala Publications.
Wydra, Nancilee (1997). Feng Shui in the Garden: Simple Solutions for Creating Comforting, Life-Affirming Gardens of the Soul. Illinois: Contemporary Books.
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HORTICULTURAL THERAPY
(under development)
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LABYRINTHS
(under development)
References
For a good bibliography, visit the Labyrinth Society's website:
www.labyrinthsociety.org/html/bibliography.phtml
MEMORIALS
Many people consider memorials to be therapeutic. A memorial can act as a catalyst in the individual and collective grieving process. In addition, memorials can serve as historical reminders and teachers for future generations.
Though not a garden in the traditional sense, Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. is one of the best examples of memorial as healing landscape. Lin's re-envisioning of the idiom from representational statuary to a more abstract form was revolutionary and marked a significant change in the way that we think about memorials, and what we now expect from them.
Designers have reacted accordingly, as evidenced by such examples as the Oklahoma City memorial, the AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and of course, the proposed World Trade Center Memorial in New York City.
References
"A Memorial to Evoke the Horror of the Day." Editorials/Letters from The New York Times, Tuesday, December 3, 2003 (in response to Maureen Dowd's "Unbearable Lightness of Memory" column, November 30).
"Living Memorials." The Hartford Courant, 'Living' section, cover story ("Planting a Tree or Garden in Memory of A Loved One Can Ease the Grief").
"The Passions Over the Memorial." Editorials/Letters from The New York Times, Tuesday, January 2, 2004.
Dowdell, Jennifer (2004). "Path of Solace." Landscape Architecture, Vol. 94, No. 1, January, p. 24 ("At Boston College, a mystical journey as 9/11 memorial").
Dunlap, David W. and Eric Lipton (2004). "Revised 9/11 Memorial to Include Artifact Center." The New York Times, January 14.
Dunlap, David W. (2004). "5,201 Ideas for 9/11 Memorial, From the Sublime to the Less So." The New York Times, February 20.
Eisenman, Theodore (2004). "Memory Never Stands Still." Landscape Architecture, Vol. 94, No. 6, June, pp. 114-117 ("Andy Goldsworthy's 'Garden of Stones' is a living memorial to the Holocaust." Permanent installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park, NYC).
Freeman, Allen (2003). "Light Touch." Landscape Architecture," Vol. 93, No. 5, May, pp. 76-81 ("184 Illuminated benches in a maple grove will memorialize the Pentagon's September 11 deaths").
Goldberger, Paul (2002). "Requiem." The New Yorker, January 14, pp. 90-91 ("Memorializing terrorism's victims in Oklahoma").
Goldberger, Paul (2003). "Memories." The New Yorker, December 8, p. 50 (On the 9/11 Memorial).
Goldberger, Paul (2004). "Slings and Arrows." The New Yorker, February 9, pp. 84-87 ("The architectural machinations at Ground Zero can be treacherous" - includes discussion of the memorial by Arad and Walker).
Kay, Janet Holz (2003). "A Hunger for Memorials." Landscape Architecture, Vol. 93, No. 3, March, pp. 114-116 ("Feeding the famine of myth and memory in New York and elsewhere").
Langdon, Philip. "Mishandling A Memorial." The New York Times,.
Raver, Anne (2003). "This Stop: 65th Floor, Rain Forest." Landscape Architecture," Vol. 93, No. 5, May, pp. 135-136 ("Will New York really be a better place with 'Sky Gardens'?").
Vangelova, Luba (2004). "A Monument Rises on the Mall." The New York Times, Sunday, March 28, Travel, p. 3 (On the new World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.).
Wasserman, Judith (2002). "Memory Embedded." Landscape Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 190-200.
Woland, Jake (2003). "The Irish Hunger Memorial: Left Starving for Understanding." Critiques of Built Works of Landscape Architecture, Volume 8, pp. 11-16.
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