Cosecha en tu propia casa los frutos de la huerta y disfruta de sus beneficios. Cada vez es más fácil aprovechar el espacio fértil de nuestro jardín e incluso de nuestras ciudades para cultivar legumbres u hortalizas de manera natural y disfrutar de sus sabores y sus propiedades para la salud. Solo es necesario saber cómo. Tu huerto urbano pone este conocimiento al alcance de cualquiera. Desde cuál es la mejor manera de preparar el terreno para hacerlo óptimo en la siembra hasta los mejores utensilios que darán forma a nuestra parcela pasando por un recopilatorio de las legumbres y hortalizas más utilizadas en nuestra gastronomía, Tu huerto urbano ofrece un sinfín de posibilidades de disfutar del campo en la propia ciudad.
An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.
Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This is the result of greater concern over urban greenspace, food security and quality of life. This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe. The book is based on a European COST Action project, which brings together researchers and practitioners from all over Europe for the first detailed exploration of the subject on a continent-wide scale. It assesses the policy, planning and design aspects, as well as the social and ecological benefits of urban allotment gardening. Through an examination of the wide range of different traditions and practices across Europe, it brings together the most recent research to discuss the latest evolutions of urban allotment gardening and to help raise awareness and fill knowledge gaps. The book provides a multidisciplinary perspective, including insights from horticulture and soil science, ecology, sociology, urban geography, landscape, planning and design. The themes are underpinned by case studies from a number of European countries which supply a wide range of examples to illustrate different key issues.
Finally, in the Epilogue , an attempt is made to translate the theoretical-empirical discussions of Chapters 1 to 7 into 10 practical recommendations for policy makers and practitioners.
This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.
Este libro está dirigido para quienes ¡YA! quieran iniciar su huerto en casa y no tiene idea por donde comenzar. Si tienes al menos 4 horas de sol directo en algún lugar de tu casa, ya tienes un potencial espacio para cultivar. Con este libro aprenderás: que es un huerto, como tener uno, como iniciarlo, cuidar tus cultivos, pasos generales para cuidarlo, cuando sembrar las hortalizas, controlar las enfermedades y plagas y mas No necesitas tener experiencia previa en jardinería, solo necesitas animarte para hacer tu huerto en casa, de verdad que es muy fácil y tendrás alimento fresco y sano todos los días, de tu huerto a tu mesa. ¿Conoces todos los beneficios que tare tener un huerto orgánico en casa? Descúbrelos y disfruta cada hoja de este maravilloso libro que te hará recordar lo importante de la alimentación basada en plantas y reconectarnos con la naturaleza. Sólo mira tu espacio de otra manera y verás cuanta vida le cabe.
This book defines and discusses the term “hidden geographies” in two ways: systematically and by presenting a variety of examples of the research fields and topics concerning hidden geographies, with the aim of stimulating further basic and applied research in this area. While the term is quite rarely used in the scientific literature (more often as a figure of speech than to illustrate or problematize its deeper meaning), we argue that hidden geographies are everywhere and many of them have significant impacts on (other) natural and social phenomena and processes, subsequently triggering changes, for example in landscape, economy, culture, health or quality of life. The introductory section of the book conceptualises hidden geographies and discusses cognitive geography, symbolization of space, and the hidden geographies in mystical literature. Case studies of hidden environmental geographies address soils, air pollution, coastal pollution and the allocation of an astronomical tourism site. Revealing hidden historical and sacred places is illustrated through examples of the visualisation of the subterranean mining landscape, the analysis of the historical road network and trade, border stones and historical spatial boundaries, and the monastic Carthusian space. Hidden urban geographies are discussed in terms of the urban development of an entire city, presenting the role of geography in rescuing architecture, revealing illegal urbanisation, and the quality of habitation in Roma neighbourhoods. Case studies of hidden population geographies shed light on the ageing of rural populations and the impact of spatial-demographic disparities on fertility variations. Discussions of hidden social and economic geographies problematize recent social changes and conflicts in a country, present the implementation of the fourth industrial revolution and borders as hidden obstacles in the organisation of public transport. Hidden geographies are explicitly linked to perceptions and explanations in case studies that address local responses to perceived marginalisation in a city, the solo women travellers’ perceived risk and safety, and hidden geographical contexts of visible post-war landscapes. The book brings such a diversity of views, ideas and examples related to hidden geographies that can serve both to deepen their understanding and their various impacts on our lives and environment, and to attract further cross-disciplinary interest in considering hidden geographies – in research and in our every-day lives.
Among the most sumptuous buildings of antiquity were royal palaces. As in the Old World, kings and nobles of ancient Mexico and Peru had luxurious administrative quarters in cities, and exquisite pleasure palaces in the countryside. This volume explores the great houses of the ancient New World, from palaces of the Aztecs and Incas, looted by the Spanish conquistadors, to those lost high in the Andes and deep in the jungle. This volume, the first scholarly compendium of elite residences of the high cultures of the New World, presents definitive descriptions and interpretations by leading scholars in the field. Authoritative yet accessible, this extensively illustrated book will serve as an important resource for anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians of art, architecture, and related disciplines.
