The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre landscaped garden near Dumfries designed by Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie. Its cosmic dimension comes from its landscaping themes on black holes and fractals, and elegant scientific equations built in to natural features.

In the accompanying book of the same title which I came across in GoMA library today, there is a short passage under the chapter heading The Poetics of Going Slow, which reads:

Renaissance garden designers, following ideas developed in the seminal Villa Medici at Fiesole, noted the importance of slow perception. A landscape garden should not be a place through which one races on the way to go somewhere else, but rather a place of imaginative exploration.

The question here is -

Is the city, in this case Glasgow, not its own landscaped garden, and its own constellation?

'Garden of Cosmic Speculation'