{"id":5778,"date":"2010-10-19T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2010-10-19T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T05:42:29","slug":"social-and-sustainable-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/social-and-sustainable-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Social and Sustainable Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_5779\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"517\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010_10_19_1383-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model Streetscape<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nPerhaps the designers of this streetscape had already absorbed Robert&#8217;s message. Not only the shade trees (Cinnamomum camphora), but lots of heat-island reducing planters too. Not so many parked cars as in Bermondsey, but of course loads of bicycles and mopeds. The great majority of the mopeds in the picture are electric. So far, so sustainable. But, this is also a social streetscape.  Behind the arcade on the left are the lunchtime restaurants, the vegetables are prepared on the pavement under the arcade and the customers enjoy a cigarette after their meal on the benches and raised walls in the balmy, late autumn sun. The large, evergreen shrubs &#8211; Osmanthus fragrens &#8211; fill the air with their light scent. Residents dry their washing on the clothes racks outside their apartment windows without the use of machines. One of many such streets in the Pudong New District of Shanghai, all not much older than 15-20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the designers of this streetscape had already absorbed Robert&#8217;s message. Not only the shade trees (Cinnamomum camphora), but lots of heat-island reducing planters too. Not so many parked cars as in Bermondsey, but of course loads of bicycles and mopeds. The great majority of the mopeds in the picture are electric. So far, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34,16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}