{"id":1290,"date":"2009-03-20T05:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2009-03-20T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:56:38","slug":"definition-of-a-sustainable-urban-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/definition-of-a-sustainable-urban-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of a sustainable urban landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0 came across this definition today, from a large UK landscape practice: &#8220;a sustainable urban landscape achieves the correct balance between environmental, economic and social needs&#8221; and regret that it is not helpful. It does not tell us how to find a &#8216;balance&#8217; and it implies that landscape architects, assuming they are to be involved, have some kind of knowledge, skill or training which lets them decide what is &#8216;correct&#8217;.\u00a0 A much better definition is required if we are to have better designs for sustainable landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0 came across this definition today, from a large UK landscape practice: &#8220;a sustainable urban landscape achieves the correct balance between environmental, economic and social needs&#8221; and regret that it is not helpful. It does not tell us how to find a &#8216;balance&#8217; and it implies that landscape architects, assuming they are to be involved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}