{"id":2888,"date":"2009-10-16T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2009-10-16T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T11:32:30","slug":"london-2012-olympic-village-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/london-2012-olympic-village-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Olympic Village: Landscape & Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"olympic_village_london_2012\"<\/a>Here is a CGI image of London’s 2012 Olympic ‘Village’ flanked by photos of the Student ‘Village’ it is replacing. One regrets that the Trade Descriptions Act does not apply to the word ‘Village’. The Online Etymological Dictionary entry for Village has: “late 14c., “inhabited place larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town,” from O.Fr. village<\/span> “houses and other buildings in a group” (usually smaller than a town), from L. villaticum<\/span> “farmstead” (with outbuildings), noun use of neut. sing. of villaticus<\/span> “having to do with a farmstead or villa,” from villa<\/span> “country house” (see villa<\/a>)” with Villa coming from from PIE *weik-<\/span> “clan” (cf. Skt. vesah<\/span> “house,” vit<\/span> “dwelling, house, settlement;” Avestan vis<\/span> “house, village, clan;”<\/p>\n

So “village” is one of our most ancient words and it should mean a group of dwellings occupied by people who are related to each other and who relate to the surrounding land. The design for the London 2012 Olympic Village looks as though it might be in the valley of the Yellow River, providing modern blocks for groups of workers who no longer have any cultural or horticultural connection to the land on which they live.\u00a0 Where are the sustainable green roofs on the Olympic ‘Village’? Or do they plan to build a new Pruitt-Igoe<\/a> in London?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a CGI image of London’s 2012 Olympic ‘Village’ flanked by photos of the Student ‘Village’ it is replacing. One regrets that the Trade Descriptions Act does not apply to the word ‘Village’. The Online Etymological Dictionary entry for Village has: “late 14c., “inhabited place larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888"}],"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=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}