In my time as a public housing resident I have participated in many resident-based activities such as community gardens and social events. I have also engaged with housing authorities on a variety of tenancy related matters. Through these ‘Tenant Participation’ activities I found myself attempting to encourage participation from other residents. These attempts to ‘encourage’ were frequently fru...

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is one of the most prevalent ornamental plants grown in private and public gardens. Hibiscus chlorotic ringspot virus (HCRSV) is a member of the Carmovirus genus, with a positive single-strand RNA that putatively encodes seven proteins. The complete genome of the first Israeli isolate of HCRSV, HCRSV-IL, comprises 3,908 nucleotides and shows 93% nucleotide sequence identi...

This article investigates the functions that urban gardens have in Mexico City two years after start-up of Food Sustainability System (SSA) integrated, among others, by Law Urban Gardens (LHU). To identify different functions, multifunctionality was taken as a guiding concept, through this it is sought to environmental, economic and sociocultural gardens. A qualitative study carried out, inform...

The QUT’s Gardens project aims to create a virtual parallel machine out of a network of nondedicated computers (workstations/PCs). These systems are interconnected through low latency and high bandwidth communication links such as Myrinet. Gardens is an integrated programming language and system designed to utilize the idle workstation’s CPU cycles to support adaptive parallel computing. A Gard...

Cities across the United States that have considerable vacant land are debating whether to foster community gardens on that land, while cities with land shortages are debating when to replace gardens with other uses. Meanwhile, many cities are looking for new ways to finance green spaces. Little empirical evidence about the neighborhood impacts of community gardens is available, however, to inf...

The continuing population growth, decreasing availability of productive land due to land conversion, transport emissions of food and other factors will create significant challenges for supplying future food demand and sustainability. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) identified that by 2050 there will be an additional 2.7 billion people in the world (UNDP, 2009). Two thirds of th...

Growing populations and rapid worldwide urbanization are recognized as constituting one of the most complex processes in the world and have raised concerns about the sustainability of cities. Sustainable development, a widely accepted strategic framework in city planning, singles out urban green spaces as a primary solution for addressing these issues. Growing empirical evidences indicate that ...

The paper reveals a new dimension of implementing the third mission university - through activities rolled-out by Russian universities in their botanic gardens. For urban residents, gardens, addition to main functions, are gradually becoming place for integrating different population groups, from schoolchildren pensioners. These public spaces conduct active educational policies aimed at many se...

Tropical wildlands and their biodiversity will survive in perpetuity only through their integration into human society. One protocol for integration is to explicitly recognize conserved tropical wildlands as wildland gardens. A major way to facilitate the generation of goods and services by a wildland garden is to generate a public-domain Yellow Pages for its organisms. Such a Yellow Pages is p...