{"id":67,"date":"2008-08-19T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/19\/landscape-architects-including-martha-schwartz-covered-in-mud-2\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T17:11:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:11:13","slug":"landscape-architects-including-martha-schwartz-covered-in-mud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/landscape-architects-including-martha-schwartz-covered-in-mud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape architects, including Martha Schwartz, covered in mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/addictive_picasso\/2761940509\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3047\/2761940509_165383a222_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/addictive_picasso\/2761940509\/\">The Playforest, Cutsyke<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/addictive_picasso\/\">Addictive Picasso<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/4homes\/on-tv\/kevin-s-big-town-plan\/parks-and-public-spaces-08-08-18_p_1.html\">Kevin McCleod on Channel 4<\/a> looked at three landscape projects in Castleford on TV last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthaschwartz.com\/\">Martha Schwartz<\/a> did worst. Tempted into describing herself as one of the \u2018Two Queens of Landscape Architecture\u2019, she forced a celebrity design for a park amphitheater down the reluctant throats of a mining community in the North of England. There was a community \u2018consultation\u2019 exercise in which she was told they did not want it. So English Partnerships paid the \u00a31m project cost. It was built. The community do not like it and do not use it. <em>Sic transit gloria mundis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Parklife, a London landscape firm, also did a community \u2018consultation\u2019, and then provided the adventure playground which was requested. Very sensible. It cost \u00a3200,000. But the landscape architects refused to provide a fence and so the vandals are pulling the park to pieces and ripping out the plants, night after night. Very stupid. <em>Sic transit gloria hortus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A local community leader said the first step in making a public open space was to build a high fence. She did this and then forced the designers to make what is now called the Cutsyke Play Forest. It is popular and remains in excellent condition. Very sensible. I congratulate her. See our essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/history_theory\/library_online_ebooks\/architecture_city_as_landscape\/public_parks_boundless_space\">Parks and boundless space<\/a> for a discussion of the role of boundaries in the planning and design of public open space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Playforest, Cutsyke Originally uploaded by Addictive Picasso Kevin McCleod on Channel 4 looked at three landscape projects in Castleford on TV last night. Martha Schwartz did worst. Tempted into describing herself as one of the \u2018Two Queens of Landscape Architecture\u2019, she forced a celebrity design for a park amphitheater down the reluctant throats 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":[16,23,26,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}