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– Words by Devon Paige Smith Photography by Don DentonOn a beautiful fall day in her small Oak Bay shop, Five Fields Décor & Design owner Deborah Baker puts the final tweaks on a holiday wreath sh...
Vertical gardens are an amazing wall to beautify walls and any type of small space for that matter – inside or out. Using the vertical plane for planting offers the opportunity to make the most of wal...
Rick Cook was hunting for a cotton-white egg case that the resident praying mantis had spun around a reed in his garden. It was hidden among the free-flowing Sedum plants, near the apiary where Cook’s...
The scheme, approved by Westminster Council last month, involves attaching a set of lightweight steel balconies to the existing Sidell Gibson-designed office block on Sheldon Square in Paddington Cent...
The benefits of nature on mental health and for wellbeing have long been recognised, and now a team of NTU Singapore psychologists has used Virtual Reality (VR) to examine whether vertical greenery ha...
Beijing's Chang'an Avenue, a major street in the city, has completed the decoration of 10 themed flower terraces featuring the history and modern development of the nation to celebrate the 100th anniv...
Paving over natural surfaces has a particularly negative effect on water balance. Rainwater can no longer seep away unimpededly, which means that less groundwater is formed. In addition, the risk of f...
Editor’s Note:Shareable is partnering with Tufts University on this special series hosted by professor Julian Agyeman (Co-chair of Shareable’s Board) and Cities@Tufts. Initially designed for Tufts stu...
Is there a political and civic commitment to greening the mass of new medium-density roof spaces now being built? PHOTO: GETTY IMAGESNew Zealand’s move towards greater urban density should result in a...
Photo-Illustration: Curbed. Photo: Gernot WagnerMost New Yorkers live in small apartments and don’t drive, two of the most important factors that make cities so climate-friendly. Just by living as Ne...
No longer an afterthought, vertical greening is now integrated as an essential part of property-development strategy. According to Edwin Chan, senior project director at New World Development (NWD), i...
'You'll soon need double-glazing to get a mortgage': ADRIAN LOWERY says the need to green homes for net zero is on a collision course with middle-class period property obsessionsBy Adrian Lowery for T...
Vegetation is returning to our cities. The trend started with rooftop planters on City banks in the 2000s, before spreading to the occasional green wall on a luxury hotel. Now, entire urban blocks ar...
In the 1930s, the stretch of shops and entertainment venues along the 1.8 mile-long High Road earned Streatham the moniker the “West End of south London”. The suburb still has traces of its Art Deco p...
If you look around in most cities you are likely to see a steel and concrete jungle, except for the odd flower pot here and there. But this is slowly beginning to change. Cities worldwide are redesign...
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