{"id":5670,"date":"2010-12-03T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2010-12-03T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:52:39","slug":"specialised-public-open-space-enriches-urban-landscape-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/specialised-public-open-space-enriches-urban-landscape-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialised public open space enriches urban landscape design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kp58TvedECE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kp58TvedECE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThe &#8216;urban squatters&#8217; skateboard park on the South bank in London is one of my favourite examples of a highly specialised, and unofficial, public open space. Benighted planners have as unimaginative an approach to POS as they do to education. It is ONE SIZE FITS ALL &#8211; a national curriculum and a national provision of &#8216;public open space&#8217;. The historic standard was &#8216;7 acres of open space\/1000 people&#8217;, to go with a national diet of one glass of milk, four slices of bread, meat and two veg, with a fish on a Friday. Cooks have liberated us from wartime diets but wartime POS provision continues. &#8216;You can have any POS you want, so long as it is green&#8217;. But, as the video shows, London&#8217;s young, dynamic, agile and multi-ethnic youngsters have other ideas, other tastes, other skills and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/library_online_ebooks\/architecture_city_as_landscape\/harlequin_public_parks\">harlequin love of coloured space<\/a>. My conclusion is that the age of Generalised POS is over. The age of Specialised POS has begun. The above example cost the authorities nothing to make and costs them nothing to maintain. It is therefore more SUSTAINABLE than a stupid patch of neglected grass.<br \/>\nNotes (1) other examples of specialised POS welcome (2) I&#8217;m not sure but I think the urban space in the video is a consequence of the architecture professions onetime love of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piloti\">pilotis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;urban squatters&#8217; skateboard park on the South bank in London is one of my favourite examples of a highly specialised, and unofficial, public open space. Benighted planners have as unimaginative an approach to POS as they do to education. It is ONE SIZE FITS ALL &#8211; a national curriculum and a national provision of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670"}],"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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}