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2. Calvert Vaux - Wikipedia

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   Calvert Vaux FAIA (/ vɔːks /; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his protégé Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City and the Delaware Park–Front Park System in Buffalo, New York. Vaux, on his own and in various ...

3. Landscaping - Wikipedia

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   Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following: Living elements, such as flora or fauna; or what is commonly called gardening, the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the landscape. Natural abiotic elements, such as landforms, terrain shape ...

4. Landscape architecture - Wikipedia

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   Modern landscape architecture is a multi-disciplinary field, incorporating aspects of urban design, architecture, geography, ecology, civil engineering, structural engineering, horticulture, environmental psychology, industrial design, soil sciences, botany, and fine arts. The activities of a landscape architect can range from the creation of ...

5. Business card - Wikipedia

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   An attorney's business card, 1895 Eugène Chigot, post impressionist painter, business card 1890s A business card from Richard Nixon's first Congressional campaign, in 1946 Front and back sides of a business card in Vietnam, 2008 A Oscar Friedheim card cutting and scoring machine from 1889, capable of producing up to 100,000 visiting and business cards a day

6. Borrowed scenery - Wikipedia

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   Romanization. shakkei. Borrowed scenery (借景; Japanese: shakkei; Chinese: jièjǐng[1]) is the principle of "incorporating background landscape into the composition of a garden" found in traditional East Asian garden design. The term borrowing of scenery ("shakkei") is Chinese in origin, and appears in the 17th century garden treatise Yuanye.

7. Landscape engineering - Wikipedia

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   Landscape engineering. A river with functional (flood preventing) engineering (in Houston, Texas) A canal design focused on esthetical landscape architecture (in Stockholm, Sweden) for comparison. Landscape engineering is the application of mathematics and science to shape land and waterscapes. It can also be described as green engineering, but ...