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Whilst the levees broke in August 2005 because of typhoon Katrina, eighty percentage of the town of latest Orleans was once flooded, with a lack of 134,000 houses and 986 lives. particularly, the devastation hit the weak groups the toughest: the outdated, the terrible and the African American. The catastrophe uncovered the hideous inequality of the town. in line with the catastrophe a variety of plans, designs and tasks have been proposed.
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This garden, in Haryana (in what was formerly in the Punjab), was built by Nawab Fidai Khan, the foster brother of Aurangzeb. The central canal survives, as do many fountains and some of the original pavilions, but there are now many modern attractions, including a Japanese garden, a plant nursery, picnic gardens, and a small zoo. Mughal gardens have been appropriated as part of the cultural heritage of the subcontinent, even in Hindudominated India. The garden created by Edwin Lutyens for the Viceroy’s Residence (now the Presidential Residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi, for example, is a Mughal design, albeit with some English planting, including a lawn in the centre used for receptions.
Within the walls, there was no ground cover; plants were irrigated individually, and between the plants there was bare and dry earth. Greece and Rome For students of literature, the enduring image of the early Greek garden is contained in the final pages of Homer’s 10 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 31/8/2016, SPi The Ancient and Medieval Garden Odyssey, in which King Laertes is depicted hoeing his vineyard, and Odysseus proves his identity by recalling lessons in horticulture that his father had given to him as a child.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 31/8/2016, SPi Figure 1 ‘Garden Party’ relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, British Museum. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 31/8/2016, SPi The Ancient and Medieval Garden grouped together beside the park. The garden was divided into four quadrants by irrigation channels, with a fountain at the middle. g. Urdu), was to become immensely influential in Islamic gardens, not least because the riverine garden of eternal paradise described in the Qur’an is recognizably a garden in the chahar bagh tradition.