{"id":1442,"date":"2010-02-04T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:29:00","slug":"public-sociological-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/02\/04\/public-sociological-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"public (sociological) spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Tiago S Costa on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28266138@N00\/4314388077\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;margin-left: 15px;margin-right: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4314388077_1782a24d98_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"F1000011\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a>What could decorative rocks and park benches have to do with sociology? The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/01\/30\/REPG1BOEN2.DTL\"> San Francisco Chronicle <\/a>suggests one possibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Jeffrey Miller, landscape architecture is more than just plants, waterfalls and decorative rocks. For Miller, the founder of San Francisco&#8217;s Miller Company Landscape Architects, it&#8217;s about uniting living spaces and bringing people together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My impetus to be a landscape architect came out of a question &#8211; how to design social and public space so that there were better relationships between people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a nature-based beginning, it came from more of a sociological perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since forming Miller Company in 1980, the former sociology student and filmmaker has been involved with some of the more dramatically landscaped residential communities in the Bay Area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miller applies his sociological imagination to landscaping by envisioning public spaces as opportunities for social interaction and connection, especially in big cities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately, Miller realizes that the outdoor space of a development is almost always larger than the interior space, and what you do with that is as important as creating comfortable living rooms and spacious kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The largest space that we have with these projects is everything that&#8217;s outside of the buildings,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So the care and design of the world outside of buildings is tremendously important to the way we live, especially in urban places. This is kind of our public living room &#8211; what we have outside &#8211; and the more we can create sociable environments for communities coming together, the better social environment we&#8217;re going to have.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could decorative rocks and park benches have to do with sociology? The San Francisco Chronicle suggests one possibility: For Jeffrey Miller, landscape architecture is more than just plants, waterfalls and decorative rocks. For Miller, the founder of San Francisco&#8217;s Miller Company Landscape Architects, it&#8217;s about uniting living spaces and bringing people together. &#8220;My impetus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[65,134,1109,161,175,125],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-environment","tag-geography","tag-land","tag-social","tag-sociology","tag-urban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}