{"id":779,"date":"2009-01-09T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T11:01:31","slug":"sustainable-landscape-architecture-planning-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/sustainable-landscape-architecture-planning-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable landscape architecture, planning and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_793\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"size-full wp-image-793\" title=\"sustainable_landscape_architecture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sustainable_landscape_architecture.jpg\" alt=\"Sustainable Landscape Architecture - Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks\" width=\"370\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sustainable_landscape_architecture.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sustainable_landscape_architecture-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sustainable Landscape Architecture - Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to the <em>Sustainable Sites Initiative<\/em> for producing the best publication I have seen on sustainable landscape architecture, planning and design. They are inviting comments and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablesites.org\/report\/\">use this link to download a free copy<\/a>.\u00a0 The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary partnership, led by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and the United States Botanic Garden. Good though the report is, my feeling is that the scientists have had a greater say in its production than the designers. The general public and the design community will only make a significant committment to sustainable landscape design when it looks right. It needs to become a &#8216;must-have-can&#8217;t-live-without&#8217; commodity. Never having found much use for blue jeans, I am convinced that people buy 501s for their looks.\u00a0 I also suspect that people wear stilettos more for style than because they are so durable, comfortable and sustainable.\u00a0 One of the ASLA contributions to the partnership should have been to ensure the report is packed with must-have images. Even at this late stage, ASLA should find some far-superior images for the cover. I love cycling and cyclists &#8211; but I can&#8217;t see how they help <em>sell <\/em>sustainable landscape design.\u00a0 Ditto with wild flowers and riverside parkways. They exemplify good planning &#8211; but not exciting design.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the Sustainable Sites Initiative for producing the best publication I have seen on sustainable landscape architecture, planning and design. They are inviting comments and you can use this link to download a free copy.\u00a0 The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary partnership, led by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}