{"id":6440,"date":"2011-01-27T03:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2011-01-27T03:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T03:54:02","slug":"the-geography-and-topography-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-geography-and-topography-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The geography and topography of place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_ov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_ov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_ov.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_ov-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_jl2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_jl2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_jl2.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/the_city_dune_s240111_jl2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urban designers in the port city of Copenhagen are making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayfaring.info\/2009\/03\/06\/copenhagen-harbour\/\">quite a splash <\/a>for themselves with the design of several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denmark-pictures.com\/amager-beach.html\">exciting new urban spaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-architect.co.uk\/copenhagen\/the_city_dune.htm\">Dune city <\/a>is the latest urban design offering by SLA in Copenhagen. &#8220;Like a giant dune of sand or snow it slips in between and clings around the buildings, thereby creating a spatial coherence in the design.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The foldedplate design enables the visitor (pedestrians, cyclists, skaters and the walking impaired) to tranverse the elevated landscape between the buildings amidst a vegetated space of reedy grasses and trees. The landscape has been designed to appear flat and two dimensional from a distance but to reveal its true three dimensional character as you move through its spaces. The high albredo effect is said to produce a cooler microclimate during the warmer periods by reflecting the incoming heat and radiation.  <\/p>\n<p>Can the the world&#8217;s model climate citizen lead the way also with climate sensitive urban design and by its example also change the fate of nations like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.president.mn\/eng\/newsCenter\/viewNews.php?newsId=104\">Mongolia<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban designers in the port city of Copenhagen are making quite a splash for themselves with the design of several exciting new urban spaces. Dune city is the latest urban design offering by SLA in Copenhagen. &#8220;Like a giant dune of sand or snow it slips in between and clings around the buildings, thereby creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,18,37,40,24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440"}],"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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}