Contribution of Garden Architecture to the Regional Development

• Published in: Acta regionalia et environmentalica Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 5 - 11
• Main Authors: Petrášová, Viera, Beresecká, Janka, Jarábková, Jana, Melichová, Katarína, Valach, Maroš
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter Open 22.08.2014
• Subjects: barriers to entrepreneurship; creativity; garden architecture
• ISSN: 1336-9253; 1336-9253
• DOI: 10.2478/aree-2014-0002

Creative garden architecture currently afects regional development in two ways. Firstly, it results in landscape architecture outputs, horticulture arrangements, and garden projects. Secondly, it constitutes an environment for the development of certain business activities, namely tourism and horticulture. Garden architecture is able to secure the development of land-based economy, replacing the decreased production of agricultural commodities, and thus contributing to regional development. Garden architecture businesses in the Nitra region are currently limited by the lack of their potential clients’ fnancial resources as well as the barriers to entrepreneurship created in the Slovak Republic. The number of the businesses in the region enables them to develop mutual cooperation without the need for strong competition. on the contrary, it encourages the diversifcation of business activities, various levels of their specialization and potential development of partnerships in a region.