NEIGHBORHOOD GREEN SEQUENCE

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CONTEXT A place has been chosen as a neighborhood green to be made.
INPUT The location and site which you have constructed in steps 1-4
OUTPUTA worked out design for the new green, including paving, plants, boundaries, a bench, treatment of trees flowers and bushes.

Details of how to make the Green
Step
5
Experience the Land
Step
6
Identify the major centers in the land
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Centers
Step
7
Make a rough drawing of the land with its centers
Step
8
Level the land for the first and most important center
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Positive Space
Step
9
Work on secondary centers: individual trees, space between trees, open grass land, a corridor to a view.
Step
10
build a beautiful seat
Step
11
plant flowers, flowering bushes, and native plants
Step
12
a focus, perhaps a fountain, perhaps a fishpond

Finally, complete work with landscape architects, shovels, rakes, and pruning shears