{"id":9241,"date":"2013-04-30T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:12:25","slug":"sustainable-green-roofs-and-solar-walls-in-urban-landscape-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/sustainable-green-roofs-and-solar-walls-in-urban-landscape-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable green roofs and solar walls in urban landscape design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"future_urban_landscape_design\" width=\"775\" height=\"387\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/future_urban_landscape_design-624x312.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazing but true: the <a href=\"http:\/\/monetaryrealism.com\/solar-is-about-to-change-our-world\/\">price of solar panels<\/a> after dropping at about 6% per year for a decade, the price of solar panels is now dropping at 20% per year. If this continues for 5 years solar power is going to be cheaper than coal power. But the cost of electricity transmission is not falling so it will be advantageous to have solar panels as close as possible to the buildings in which the electricity is used. So the likely future of urban design is: solar panels on the walls and vegetation of the roofs. No more dead walls and, since pv panels are reflective, we can look forward to sunlight being reflected into the previously dark corners of cities. Retaining the &#8216;matchbox&#8217; form of recent cities would not be sensible. We can look forward to some entirely different urban forms and to a much fuller integration of landscape design with architectural design.<br \/>\nImages courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/afagen\/\">afagen <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mgifford\/\">mgifford<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing but true: the price of solar panels after dropping at about 6% per year for a decade, the price of solar panels is now dropping at 20% per year. If this continues for 5 years solar power is going to be cheaper than coal power. But the cost of electricity transmission is not falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241"}],"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=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}