{"id":5831,"date":"2010-11-03T06:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2010-11-03T06:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:17:34","slug":"who-should-we-blame-for-nottinghams-urban-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/who-should-we-blame-for-nottinghams-urban-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should we blame for Nottingham&#039;s urban landscape architecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nottingham_urban_landscape\" width=\"775\" height=\"757\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/nottingham_urban_landscape-624x610.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a>Whodunnit? A wordsmith writes of &#8216;Poor torn-up Nottingham, with its smell of saturated fats and the ubiquitous roar of passing cars circling its city centre like Apaches in a cowboy movie&#8217;. But who did it? And what can be done about it? The <em>Sunday Times<\/em> art critic (Waldemar Januszczak, 31.10.10) also says this mess is &#8216;fully representative of Britain today&#8217;. Should we blame the town council? the city engineers? the planners? the architects? central government? immigrants? the landscape architects? All of them? Diagnosis comes before treatment, so the question needs to be answered. Could an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/cities-in-their-landscape-setting\/\">Oberbaudirektor <\/a>have prevented the mess? Or would he have contributed to the stench of saturated fat?<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/horrigans\/\">Maddy Lou<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whodunnit? A wordsmith writes of &#8216;Poor torn-up Nottingham, with its smell of saturated fats and the ubiquitous roar of passing cars circling its city centre like Apaches in a cowboy movie&#8217;. But who did it? And what can be done about it? The Sunday Times art critic (Waldemar Januszczak, 31.10.10) also says this mess is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831"}],"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=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}