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Maintenance is often considered a line of defense within landscape architecture: a set of generic operations that defends a singular design intent from the dynamism of the medium. However, it is this inherent dynamism of the medium, its insistent temporality, that makes the potential relationship of a project and its grooming one of the most interesting and largely overlooked relationships.
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(2007). Grooming. In: Living Systems. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8297-1_5
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