{"id":1947,"date":"2009-07-11T05:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2009-07-11T05:24:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:24:24","slug":"exploring-streets-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/exploring-streets-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring streets ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fruit-street-trees-montreal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fruit-street-trees-montreal.jpg\" alt=\"fruit-street-trees-montreal\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fruit-street-trees-montreal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fruit-street-trees-montreal-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It seems the Canadians have taken to promoting the idea of street orchards&#8230;which since I had been reading <em>Great Streets <\/em>by Allan Jacobs (1993) seemed a great way (with a co-operative\u00a0enlightened council)\u00a0of enhancing urban residential streets and providing edible opportunities for both people and fauna.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0is Jacobs belief that sociability is a major reason behind the development of urban centres. And I suppose economic exchange is just one part of a broader view of sociability. Residential streets are places to come home to, to relax in\u00a0and to spend time at with the family as well as create mini-communities.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs says &#8220;There have been times when streets were a primary focus of city building &#8211; streets rather than individual buildings.&#8221; Streets are the place where urban landscape and architecture intersect and mingle.<\/p>\n<p>It would be\u00a0interesting to take some cues from Jacobs and add to the collection of green roofs, a collection of great streets!<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0more including source of photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/01\/14\/planting-fruit-trees-on-city-streets\/\">http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/01\/14\/planting-fruit-trees-on-city-streets\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the Canadians have taken to promoting the idea of street orchards&#8230;which since I had been reading Great Streets by Allan Jacobs (1993) seemed a great way (with a co-operative\u00a0enlightened council)\u00a0of enhancing urban residential streets and providing edible opportunities for both people and fauna. It\u00a0is Jacobs belief that sociability is a major reason behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}