{"id":6735,"date":"2011-03-31T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:26:37","slug":"is-ken-yeangs-brilliant-landscape-architecture-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/is-ken-yeangs-brilliant-landscape-architecture-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ken Yeang&#039;s brilliant landscape architecture sustainable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken-yeang-green-building-balcony-landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ken-yeang-green-building-balcony-landscape-390x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ken-yeang-green-building-balcony-landscape\" width=\"390\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6734\" \/><\/a> Or is Ken Yeang&#8217;s landscape architecture subject to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/11\/patrick-blanc-green-walls-are-beautiful-but-are-they-sustainable\/\">the same criticism as Patrick Blanc&#8217;s green walls<\/a>? I would of course be much happier if these approaches to landscape architecture were genuinely sustainable. But I have my doubts. My guesses are (1) the planted balconies will be great features for wealthy residents who have more than enough indoor space (2) less-wealthy residents, especially in inclement climates, would rather have more indoor space than a big balcony, though sliding doors would offer the choice of indoor or outdoor space (3) the extra habitat space will do a little good for biodiversity, accoustics, carbon balance etc (4) but all these benefits could be obtained at less cost by other means (5) real people would not produce the nice green fluff on Ken Yeang&#8217;s drawings: there would be no visual unity at all to the balconies. Some would be richly planted. Others would provide storage for mountain bikes, or washing lines, or bird cages, or plastic furniture and dead plants in ugly containers. That&#8217;s life.<br \/>\nSo I am a sceptic who hopes to be proved utterly wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or is Ken Yeang&#8217;s landscape architecture subject to the same criticism as Patrick Blanc&#8217;s green walls? I would of course be much happier if these approaches to landscape architecture were genuinely sustainable. But I have my doubts. My guesses are (1) the planted balconies will be great features for wealthy residents who have more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735"}],"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=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}