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Urban, People, Parks Landscape Foundation Urban, People, Parks Landscape Foundation

PEOPLE AND PARKS

In New Zealand’s largest city, a pioneering project is underway to reconnect a community with its local park. The initiative, known as the Blake Road Reserve project, is part of Auckland Council’s ‘Adopt a Park’ programme. It explores how to connect the recreation industry with the community through the re-creation of a public space.

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URBAN BIODIVERSITY OR URBAN DESERT?

How can we integrate better with our environment on an urban level? We fill awkward spaces that cannot be used for housing, or a section of grass with trees per head of population.  This is often how a lot of our parks came into being, a very human activity-driven allocation process.

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Land, People, Culture Landscape Foundation Land, People, Culture Landscape Foundation

TOWARDS LANDSCAPE AOTEAROA

Landscape Architects are concerned with change. Not with its initiation but as moderators, facilitators and directors. This is true whether working on broad-scale planning or site specific design. The intent is always the same. To try and ensure that the right changes occur in the right place by the right means.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF LANDSCAPE

Many find discussions about landscape, and the intensity with which people react to changes proposed, hard to understand. They do not appreciate that landscape is a concept which people hold dearly, as part of who they are, where they were borne and now live. 

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