{"id":939,"date":"2011-11-28T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billriggs.name\/uncategorized\/sea-ranch-a-beautiful-example-of-environmental\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:14:00","slug":"sea-ranch-a-beautiful-example-of-environmental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Sea Ranch a &#8216;Beautiful Example of Environmental Architecture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo; the totality of The Sea Ranch offers an example of an environmentally  sensitive development and place that is also sublimely beautiful&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I find this quote by Sarah Williams Goldhagen in the New Republic to be very provocative and am wondering how she objectively supports such a strong claim.\u00a0 Her article mentions nothing about sustainability &ndash; For example, the embedded water \/ energy use, lack of transportation services, loss of valuable agricultural land and lack of affordability \/ equity espoused by the development.\u00a0 It would seam to me that at best The Sea Ranch was an experiment in design with environmental aspirations.\u00a0 It may have aesthetic merit but many environmental factors went unheeded and in the ethos of &lsquo;sustainable design&rsquo; the simple act of putting 2,000 homes on a greenfield site within feet of a pristine coast would render the aspirations unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo; the totality of The Sea Ranch offers an example of an environmentally sensitive development and place that is also sublimely beautiful&hellip;&rdquo; I find this quote by Sarah Williams Goldhagen in the New Republic to be very provocative and am wondering how she objectively supports such a strong claim.\u00a0 Her article mentions nothing about sustainability&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/?p=939\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sea Ranch a &#8216;Beautiful Example of Environmental Architecture&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,77,67,10,6],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-coast","tag-opinion","tag-planning","tag-sustainability","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamriggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}