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Nowadays, drones are widely employed in a variety of industries. Drones are still not very widespread since they are often expensive and there is a significant danger of harm when flying them. They cannot be flown indoors or in dense forests or areas with many trees. This paper presents a nano drone (drone size below 10 cm) with an obstacle detection feature using LIDAR. The proposed nano drone is used to plot a 2D map of the surrounding and also helps in understanding the path of the flight as well as obstacle sensing. Here the small size and lower cost of components used to make drone makes it more efficient and less risky. The drone consists of an Arduino Pro mini as the processor along with a LIDAR sensor to control the LED and buzzer as indicators. The proposed work results in a small, light nano drone that can fly indoors, over trees, and through gardens while detecting obstacles using LIDAR proximity sensing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a concept of a mobile robotic platform designed to monitor plant tissues of fruit trees during their growing season under conditions of intensive gardening. The platform includes an information and sensor system for monitoring the quality of the plant tissues and visual navigation created for autonomous movement of the platform across the garden according to the task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Shimal plain in Ras al-Khaimah is an area rich in archaeology and history, which has been subject to archaeological exploration since the 1960s (de Cardi & Doe 1971; Donaldson 1984; 1985; Vogt & Franke-Vogt 1987). Despite this, questions relating particularly to the development and character of prehistoric and early historic settlement in the area persist. Having prime agricultural conditions, a large portion of the Shimal was once given over to palm-garden cultivation, these recently experiencing a considerable decline caused by loss of underground water, socio-economic changes, and inevitable development. Paradoxically, these very circumstances present an unparalleled opportunity to investigate previously inaccessible areas -- a focus of the Shimal Plain Palm Garden (SPPG) Project. The project, designed as a rapid rescue survey of areas under imminent threat from development, was to map and record all archaeological sites and heritage structures onto a geospatial resource and to collect representative ceramic assemblages from these, to serve as a resource for subsequent research. The paper aims to review the project methodology and highlight results from the first two seasons (2018 & 2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper gives definition to sensory garden, describes its main characteristics, properties and functions. The author studies experience of growing and building sensory gardens in Russia and abroad. Content of the paper includes a study of therapeutic benefit possessed from emotional and perceptional interaction with sensory gardens and accessibility of such gardens for people with special needs. Built environment of Saint-Petersburg (Russia) is analyzed in the paper as a basis for development of standard modules and standard design solutions for sensory gardens. In particular, the author has selected an area in the city which is accessible for sightimpaired people visiting specialized institutions nearby (i.e. Culture and Sport Rehabilitation enter for sight-impaired people established by Saint-Petersburg regional division of All-Russia Society of the Blind and Saint-Petersburg State Library for the blind and visually challenged people). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses ethnographic observation to describe how Puerto Ricans community gardeners on the Lower East Side used everyday practices to resist becoming marginalized in their community gardens as middle class gentrifiers have joined the gardens. In many respects disempowered in their encounters with whites, in everyday encounters, Puerto Rican gardeners used cultural practices and nationalist meanings encoded in garden spaces to assert their moral superiority, and to problematize the middle class whiteness of newcomer gardeners. This low level criticism of white fellow gardeners is an example of an everyday strategy of resistance that is often overlooked in studies of gentrification. In certain political settings, this alternative discourse of who belongs and who is worthy does emerge into political debate, shaping how Puerto Ricans demand recognition in struggles for space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Describes how activists seeking to preserve New York City’s community gardens from redevelopment during the Giuliani Administration. Many studies of community based movements emphasize their emergence from an "authentic" local praxis. This paper recasts the presentation of community sentiment as a strategic, purposeful project undertaken by local activists in order to sway the opinion of non local publics and officials. Frame theory helps to describe how activists undertake to spin their attachment and sentiment as gardeners into a moral allegory of community versus the violence of redevelopment. Using myth and pageantry gardeners made a sympathetic case for themselves as moral claimants in the public arena. This was instrumental in swaying public opinion against Mayor Giuliani, and led to their preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the mutual correlations between free art, design, garden art and their exposure in the public urban space. It notes on their mutual interferences and stresses the use of urban greenery and plants as elements of art-design in the process of formation of urban public space. It outlines the development and tendency of the convergence of these disciplines and links between fine arts, garden art and urban space planning. Integrating the elements of living plants into the objects of design and art can help to bring natural elements into those places and urban areas, where, due to various limiting factors, it is not possible to apply greenery in usual ways. Art-design and Public-art in various forms (for example Arborsculpture, Living Sculpture, Green Art, Light Art and others), becomes part of the urban design and in all of its forms is a phenomenon that belongs to the urban environment and its peculiarity may be a significant feature of the public urban space identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the relationship between society and nature within the spatial confines of the front lawn. The complexity of this relationship is revealed in the number of processes operating in this semi-public arena. These processes include the natural process of plant growth, the labour process of 'improving upon nature', the production process which includes the labour process and the natural process of the grass ecosystem (combined with the technological process), the aesthetization process of harnessing nature for aesthetic designs and the commoditization process, in which 'natural' inputs are bought and brought into the front lawn garden. Marxs' concept of the metabolic rift and Benjamin's exhibition value are used to develop a framework which can account for how these processes interact with each other to 'produce' the front lawn. New concepts are developed, such as the rift canopy and the aesthetic veneer as a way of expressing the dialectical relationship between the attempted order imposed by the gardener on the 'chaos' of nature. The analysis concludes that the gardener is caught 'bewixt and between' the forces of nature and society in a situation of externalization to nature and to his/her work with nature in the front lawns of America. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid developments in cities led to the absence of the human dimension in the parts of the city and its urban environment, which led to the neglect of the relationships that support and enhance the quality of life in the city, which stems from the human relationship with the surrounding environment and thus is reflected in his lifestyle and behavior, so it was necessary to move towards understanding and knowing how to achieve The quality of life to reach sustainable human cities by relying on the criteria used to measure the extent to which they are achieved in a place, and within multiple measures, including the standard of living, average income, average lifespan, age groups that can be produced in a city and other criteria that achieve the quality of the human city, and thus Achieving sustainable cities that depends on the permanent and positive relationship between man and place and the provision of all human, recreational and accompanying needs, in addition to employing gardens, parks and squares in the establishment of cultural, recreational and developmental activities, which doubles the attractiveness of the place for humans and makes it a distinct social destination, which contributes to promoting balanced development for all parts of the city, Hence the importance of the research in knowing the quality of life that can be achieved in sustainable human cities. The main objective of the research is to determine the most important dimensions and criteria for achieving the quality of life in sustainable human cities. To this end, the concept of quality of life and the dimensions and indicators of its achievement were presented and reviewed, and the human dimensions of sustainable cities were identified, along with defining the principles of goal 11 of sustainable development related to quality of life, building a theoretical framework around that, and exploring the most important vocabulary affecting the achievement of quality of life in human cities locally and globally. Finally, the results were used to provide recommendations, to add some vocabulary to enhance the quality of life in sustainable cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the aesthetic value of ephemeral gardens. It is said that ephemeral gardens can be used in rising the aesthetic values of urban space and invent new spaces that communicate emotions. Among the gardens noted are Cebada Square in Madrid, Spain and the Kaos Garden in Portugal. Background information on the VI Festival Gardens of Ponte de Lima in Portugal is presented.

Urban food security is a growing concern for cities, and Durban, eThekwini Municipality, South Africa is no exception. This study explores the impact of the Priority Zone Rooftop Garden (PZRG) on urban food security in Durban. Qualitative interviews were conducted with stakeholders from the PZRG as well as organisations which directly benefit from the initiative. The study showed that start up and maintenance costs of the garden were minimal, and its benefits exceed its limitations. With food security being addressed through food donations and the creation of individual food gardens, the PZRG contributes to food security and is worth expanding upon. By promoting rooftop agriculture in the city of Durban through the offering of incentives and enabling of by-laws, more buildings can start up initiatives like this one. Rooftop agriculture has the potential to play a major role in urban food security if it is further explored on a larger scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nearly half of urban Russian households grow food at garden plots known as dachas. This study investigates the meaning of this activity for both those who embrace it, and those who reject it. Existing scholarship frames the Russian dacha as a survival strategy and debates its efficiency. Ethnographic evidence reveals that the dacha provides not simply a source of food, but an important discursive arena for debating the rationality and morality of transition to a market economy. Due to their rich history, dachas may be interpreted as a site of production or consumption, as economic utility or status object. Because of this property, the dacha focuses cultural battles over the relationship between status and class in the shifting stratification order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme chosen by us (in this case, learning French language by Russian students of Agro-Technological Institute and Environmental faculty of RUDN University, Moscow) should make an accent on cultural aspects of gardening helping students to solve their life and professional situation, to be integrated into the professional world community. The main theoretical position is the idea that the incorporation of historical and cultural aspects helps to form flexibility and tolerance, and at the same time, selfbelief which are the conditions of employability in a changing world. Students change the stereotypes of communication. By participating in the project, students do not get a ready answer, but understand the question itself, and learn to see the intention, the position of the partner of communication, identify the core and the periphery of the problem under discussion. The report discusses the medium-term project "Garden", which includes the following topics: First, modern attitude to the treasures of the French garden crops that the generations of gardeners created: 1. The history of gardening in France: a) The journey of the estate Villandry in the Loire Valley (the concept of the medieval garden: potager, jardin des herbes); b) the medicinal properties of herbs (lavender), the symbolism of mazes (diagrams are drawn by the audience in the hall). 2. The plants, which were popular in medieval cuisine, but disappeared from modern table: the cuisine of a restaurant at the Tour Eiffel in Paris with vegetable Crosne du Japon. 3. Vertical gardening: a) aquaponics; b) vertical garden designs. Second, topics related to Russia, since they have a personal meaning for each student, their own attitude, often highly emotive even if they cannot argue their position. The basis for the selection of material is our desire to incorporate the theme of Russian gardening in the world culture which requires a special tactful form: we strive to avoid over-critical judgments or, on the contrary, self-glorification. Lesson leaves a deep impression. Feedback from students: they learn to identify themselves with the creator of the garden design and dream about their future international design work. The project's objective is to prepare them for the perception and interpretation discovering that those attitudes and evaluations that have been settled and no more discussed in the native culture, could and might be discussed, to perceive a new and a strange fact with greater openness and interest, but at the same time critically analyze the accuracy of the material. In the course of project execution are implemented the following linguistic competences: - formal and informal communication skills; - the skills of listening foreign speech; - dialogical communication skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Did you know that home gardeners can help save threatened plants? Come learn about Plant for the Planet!, a new education campaign from Botanic Gardens Conservation International to promote everyday actions home gardening enthusiasts can take to help save plants. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides resources for K-5 teachers to help them design and implement a Pollinator Garden with their students. Includes activities designed to use the Garden as an outdoor classroom to teach principles of plant biology, plant/pollinator interactions, and adaptations of desert plants and animals. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In South Africa and the US, environmental education programs are integrating the local, indigenous knowledge of elders with scientific knowledge. Learn about curricula and evaluation results of the Cornell University Garden Mosaics program (www.gardenmosaics.org) and similar efforts in South Africa. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]