{"id":701,"date":"2008-12-29T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2008-12-29T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:49:52","slug":"does-greenspace-have-a-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/does-greenspace-have-a-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Does greenspace have a value?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"untitled-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/untitled-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/untitled-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Werner Stiegler, arguing for more public green space in Florida, said \u201cOne needs to look no further than real estate ads to see that the demand for greenery is strong. It is common for ads to reference proximity to parks, and the value of greenery is often reflected in the price of properties close to green spaces.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Why should this be so? What is it about images of nature that so captivates us? Why do we seek recreation as an \u2018escape\u2019 from the city to \u2018nature\u2019? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riding Mountain National Park in Canada forms part of the UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve. It \u201coffers opportunities to study agricultural land uses and changes in relation to natural process ecosystems.\u201d Use of land for agriculture is often the first stage of the alienation of land from its \u2018wilderness\u2019 state. As such it has much to tell us about our implicit and explicit valuation of \u00a0land, apart from its scenic or existence value.\u00a0Image courtesy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waymarking.com\/cat\/details.aspx?f=1&amp;guid=f424a305-f365-42dc-98ef-bc62567c4203&amp;wft=4\">Riding Mountain National Park Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Werner Stiegler, arguing for more public green space in Florida, said \u201cOne needs to look no further than real estate ads to see that the demand for greenery is strong. It is common for ads to reference proximity to parks, and the value of greenery is often reflected in the price of properties close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}