Nature in the City
In 2011, strong theme of the programming of the city of architecture and heritage in Paris will be the place of nature in the city. Cycle “City and nature” is a journey in several exhibitions with including “City fertile”, which deals with urban landscape architecture.
The fertile “The city” exhibition features iconic achievements of urban landscape architecture and France worldwide. It offers an immersion in a world “plant and urban”. It thus replace the question of the nature in the city from a broad perspective, which addresses the historical, social, cultural, botanical dimensions as well as ecological.
Through a very theatrical scene, one of the sequences of the exhibition, entitled “The object of desire”, shows that when our fantasies of nature incarnate in the reality of the cities, they convene a wide variety of creative approaches, technological innovations and new urbanities. This richness and depth are illustrated by recent prospective projects and achievements 16 and France in the world, divided between four themes: “Forest”, “Prairie”, “Wasteland”, “banks”. The visitor is invited to a journey driving New York to Paris, Munich in Beirut from Saint-Nazaire in Detroit, edges of the Seine in Costanera Sur in Argentine…
Roberto Burle Marx
Another great cycle exhibition “City and nature” is devoted to the Brazilian Roberto Burle Marx, one of the fathers of modern landscape. These exhibitions are complemented by a session of public courses of history of architecture dedicated to gardens, a journey in the collections of the Museum, formations, a symposium, and finally, audiovisual programming on the same theme.
Designed around a large manipulable model of an urban landscape metamorphosed by nature workshop exhibition “Garden City” offers young visitors to explore the ecological future of cities. It provides an overview of the efforts of people to make more “livable” City: shared facades vegetated gardens, gardens on roofs, urban farms, friches… management
Categories: Living in France Tags: cycles, exhibition, fertile, Nature
Skiing in the discovery of nature: the French Mountain Summit
The French mountain is characterized by the immensity of its ski area. Much more rich and varied, it offers a wide variety of stations, activities and scenery to discover.
The France has 357 stations spread over seven massifs. Some have acquired a world renowned Megève, Morzine, Courchevel, Méribel, or Alpe d’Huez.
The immensity of the French ski resort indeed paradise for lovers of downhill skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, but also mountaineering and hiking ski. It is the largest domain worldwide, extended more than 1,180 km². It occupies only 30% of the world ski area. French specificity: some of these areas are connected to form of huge “linked ski areas” by lifts or shuttle. They offer the possibility to travel hundreds of kilometres of pistes with a single package.
The variety of landforms and home devices allow the practice of a much broader related activities range in snow and the mountain: stations are more likely to offer you opt for “soft” such as Snowshoes and sled rides, skating, thermalism or thrill with “Snowkiting” (using a sail tension with a snowboard or skis), the “speed-riding” (association of ski, paragliding and parachuting), ice diving or biking activities snow.
Before learn about weather conditions in the mountains, including the snow bulletins and the potential risk of avalanches.
Duck Pot-au-Feu
Fed Up with Turkey at Christmas, try this recipe for duck.
Preparation: 35 min
Cooking: 1 h 30
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients (for 4 people):
Categories: Entertainment Tags: Beef Bourguignon, Cooking, Duck, Food and drink, Garlic, Hospitality/Recreation, Monkeygland sauce, Nature
Timber Frames and Conditions The World
Land is made up of different types of terrain largely by the situation of the soil, boulders and the timber. It could be as woodland, as mountains or mountainous, as desert or rolling flat-lands.
Yet land without trees, like the Nullabor (no timber) plains in Australia, is bare except for salt shrubbery, some local flora and animals. Furthermore, being waterless, these plains are very hot, unproductive and unwanted.
Land with lots of timber is fruitful, cool, humid, appealing and also substantially alive. Whenever we remove the trees from this type of territory what exactly are we all doing to the earth?
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Categories: Environment Tags: Australia, Biology, Deforestation, Environment, Forestry, Geography and ecology of the Everglades, Land use, Mangrove, Natural environment, Nature, Plant, Soil, Tree