Existing site: Junction Toronto

Sites visited w video film documentary, publication:

1::Research city garden, contemporary art in garden installations, precedents

2::Research Garden Festival Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

3::Coulee Verte, Paris

4::Coulee verte - detail and humourous blog style site

5::Andree Citroen Park, Paris

-famous designer garden with special individual garden designs, from color themed to herbal botanical plantings, to water sound, to mainly suntan lounge chaired open space. Each garden is given a name, very pleasant geometrical organisation with a patch of reserved intentional wilderness. Giant size green house. Traditional French court gardens of Orange trees in planters. All this next to walls of glass and steel office complex buildings including a permanent giant size hotair balloon anchored to the ground, rises to take in birds eyeview of the city, capacity for 30 people. Careful city park official programming include : one free ride per year for Parisien children - must show residential ID - under 12. Otherwise 12euros/15mn. Herbal, botany lessons for weekend outings etc.

6::Cite Universitaire, Paris

7::Parc Mont-souris, Paris

8::Parc Buttes-Chaumont, Paris

9::Parc Belleville, Paris

10::Parc de la Villette, Paris (article published)

11::Palais de tokyo, museum of contemporary art and digital culture

- a small neighbourhood shared resident garden - each tenant of the garden could grow fruit vegetable, installations, or just left in wilderness abandon with ad hoc wild flowers; local lived in, no chi chi, a very charming, home like small country in the city strip of land.

12::Yuzi Paradise sculpture Park in Guilin, China

13::Yuan Ming Yuan, Beijing, China

14::Suzhou Gardens, China

15::Fondation Gand, Belgium

16::River side walk, Karlsruhe, Germany

17::River side multimedia installation, Linz, Austria

18::Kyoto philosophers walk, Japan

19::Osaka Aquarium open space, a walk-in aquarium size of a building, Japan

- an unusual, impressive undersea walking experience in a 4 story high aquarium sited in an otherwise unremarkable market place with a giant size ferris wheel - luna park ambiance