http://earthcitylandscapes.com Custom Landscape and Garden Design Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:54:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Clive Russell, OAA — Inside and Out Garden Design Garden design in the Western world has been enriched by successive waves of influence from the east. For more than fifty years, Japanese garden design had an enormous impact on how we see our outdoor spaces, and more recently Chinese ... http://earthcitylandscapes.com/articles/five-wisdoms-of-garden-design/ By Clive Russell, OAA — Inside and Out Garden Design Roam With the layout of military camps that later grew into towns and cities, the Romans started a process we now take for granted- the dividing up of urban spaces into rectangular plots. Rectangles are very efficient, easy to record in ... http://earthcitylandscapes.com/articles/get-out-of-the-box/ By Sheree Rasmussen, AOCA — Inside and Out Garden Design One of the challenges facing urban dwellers today is creating a sense of privacy and enclosure in outdoor spaces without feeling closed in and without offending neighbors. After a hard day out there in the urban chaos we often need to ... http://earthcitylandscapes.com/articles/creating-privacy-in-the-garden/