Landscape reshaping of the asylum of san francisco de paula, located in jaboticabal, Sao Paulo State, Brazil

It is a commonly known fact that there are elderly who have no family or who do not receive any kind of help from their relatives, as the family does not normally have good financial conditions to help them. These elderly live in private or public shelters and generally, they do not have enough money to cover all the necessary costs, and are forced to survive from donations. Those shelters are based, primarily, on nutrition and health. Leisure and wellbeing are usually treated with little attention, but it could be obtained in a simple and effective way: green areas, which normally exist at the site, are often misused, so they can become rest areas through simple landscape projects. It is important to mention that a garden is not just a beautiful place, but it becomes important for the daily life of older people. The objective of this work was to study the need for contemplative leisure and labor in order to improve the life quality of the elderly that live at the San Francisco de Paula Asylum, in Jaboticabal City, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. In this study, a topographic and a photographic survey was conducted and an analysis of the local ground was done. The preferences of the employees and the visitors of the building were also recorded, as well as the critical points of the area. After this primary analysis, the landscape planning was done, with the help of the AutoCAD 2004 software, prioritizing the use of plants that are not dangerous and that are easy maintained. An orchid nursery was also created in order to provide weekly workshops of orchid cultivation.

Reseña. Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970

Reseña bibliográfica de Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970

Art influences on Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Los Angeles's influence on Johnny Truant

"...is a novel that combines literature and art to create a unique postmodern object. It was published just over a decade ago, and in that time numerous scholars and students have written papers and articles on it. Within these articles, the themes are usually about deconstruction, the house as a digital object, the house's lack of homeliness, or characters who claim authorial presence. Danielewski distance himself from that role. The house and its impossible labyrinth are the central feature of the book. A house should provide stability, but this house shifts its rooms and walls at random. A house should protect its occupants, but this one kills people. This house links itself into an infinite amount of information through its use of the internet as an influence and a stylistic device, but it has nothing but an absence in its very foundation, an empty labyrinth with an unseen monster."

The University of California (in Los Angeles); a resume of the selection and acquisition of the Westwood site.

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Presidio of San Francisco : an outline of its evolution as a U.S. Army Post, 1847-1990 /

"August 1992."

Extracts from Report of the committee appointed Nov. 11, 1873, by the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, to prepare bills for legislative action on the subject of fares and freights.

C.T. Hopkins, chairman.

The ports of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Richmond, and upper San Francisco Bay, California.

Includes index.

General orders of the Board of supervisors providing regulations for the government of the city and county of San Francisco. Also, ordinances of Park commissioners.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rules and regulations of the public schools of the City and County of San Francisco.

Description based on: 1863.

Constitution and by-laws of the Longshoremen's Association of San Francisco and Bay Districts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Church music regulations for the archdiocese of San Francisco /

Mode of access: Internet.

The marine decapod Crustacea of California, with special reference to the decapod Crustacea collected by the United States Bureau of fisheries steamer "Albatross" in connection with the biological survey of San Francisco Bay during the years 1912-1913,

Published by permission of the secretary of the Smithsonian institution and of the United States commissioner of fisheries.

Salted tories; the story of the whaling fleets of San Francisco.

Mode of access: Internet.