{"id":2725,"date":"2009-10-02T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:46:45","slug":"urban-forestry-and-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/urban-forestry-and-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban forestry and landscape architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2773\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2773\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/urban-forestry-and-landscape-architecture\/trees-place-des-vosges3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2773\" title=\"trees-place-des-vosges3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/trees-place-des-vosges3.jpg\" alt=\"    In addition to being beautiful, the trees and gravel in the Place des Vosges are good for microclimate, wildlife and hydrology.\" width=\"775\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/trees-place-des-vosges3.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/trees-place-des-vosges3-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/trees-place-des-vosges3-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/trees-place-des-vosges3-624x327.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">    In addition to being beautiful, the trees and gravel in the Place des Vosges are good for microclimate, wildlife and hydrology.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All good foresters know that tree planting must serve multiple objectives: beauty, timber production, habitat creation, water management, public recreation, carbon cycle re-balancing etc. Urban landscape architects, on the whole, are less enlightened. Too often, they think of tree planting as decorative activity akin to the placement of public art in cities. Urban foresters should broaden their horizons, as rural foresters claim to have done.<\/p>\n<p>Image of Place des Vosges courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cripics\/\">cripics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All good foresters know that tree planting must serve multiple objectives: beauty, timber production, habitat creation, water management, public recreation, carbon cycle re-balancing etc. Urban landscape architects, on the whole, are less enlightened. Too often, they think of tree planting as decorative activity akin to the placement of public art in cities. Urban foresters should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,23,24,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725"}],"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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}