{"id":8217,"date":"2012-03-18T04:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2012-03-18T04:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T04:02:49","slug":"space-and-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/space-and-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Space and place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jan_gehl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jan_gehl-390x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famous Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl after a <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/brandavenue.typepad.com\/brand_avenue\/2007\/12\/public-spaces-p.html\">nine month study of central Sydney <\/a>in 2007 called for the addition of three new public squares along George Street:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His report paints a picture of a city at war with itself &#8211; car against pedestrian, high-rise against public space. &#8220;The inevitable result is public space with an absence of public life,&#8221; he concludes.<\/p>\n<p>His nine-month investigation found a city in distress. A walk down Market Street involved as much waiting at traffic lights as it did walking. In winter, 39 per cent of people in the city spend their lunchtimes underground, put off by a hostile environment at street level: noise, traffic, wind, a lack of sunlight and too few options for eating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the City of Sydney was to implement his vision how would the addition of public space improve the perception of place in Sydney?<\/p>\n<p>The City of Miami is also feeling the lack of a public centre. In considering the attributes of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.transitmiami.com\/uncategorized\/miamis-newest-urban-square-part-2\">good public squares <\/a>they describe a few of the most successful spaces in the US, including Union Square and Madison Square.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to nominate your favourite public square and tell us why it is so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Danish Urbanist Jan Gehl after a nine month study of central Sydney in 2007 called for the addition of three new public squares along George Street: &#8220;His report paints a picture of a city at war with itself &#8211; car against pedestrian, high-rise against public space. &#8220;The inevitable result is public space with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,19,23,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217"}],"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=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}