{"id":5786,"date":"2010-10-23T06:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2010-10-23T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:01:09","slug":"cities-in-their-landscape-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/cities-in-their-landscape-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities in their landscape setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hong-kong-victoria-harbour-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The landscape setting of cities is a vital component of their character which can often be overlooked. This is particularly so for designers when they are considering contributions to the design of the skyline. Hong Kong with its harbour and mountainous surrounds benefits from the scenic amenity of its setting. And because of the physical and visual strength of these geographic characteristics the setting is able to support a dense tall city. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_DoHR7WYShjg\/SYaJuEIx5FI\/AAAAAAAAAM0\/3FwEzCEsbGw\/s1600-h\/Hong+Kong+1980%27s+(2).jpg\">relationship between building and landsca<\/a>pe is worthy of considerable design attention. The name Hong Kong literally means &#8216;fragrant harbour&#8217;. Victoria harbour is one of the deepest natural maritime ports in the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverhongkong.com\/eng\/things-to-do\/images\/wanchai-ever-changing-landscape.pdf\">Reclamation projects <\/a>dating from the late 1842 (1890, 1930, 1960, 1980 and 1990) have progressively advanced Hong Kong&#8217;s shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>In Hong Kong they recognise some of the benefits of landscape saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pland.gov.hk\/pland_en\/p_study\/prog_s\/landscape\/pamphlet\/eng.htm\">landscape is an asset <\/a>which contributes to well-being, helps define the identity of the city, provides habitats for wildlife and is part of their culture and heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landscape setting of cities is a vital component of their character which can often be overlooked. This is particularly so for designers when they are considering contributions to the design of the skyline. Hong Kong with its harbour and mountainous surrounds benefits from the scenic amenity of its setting. And because of the physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,16,23,27,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786"}],"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=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}