{"id":2998,"count":6,"description":"Maintenance is the continuous care that keeps landscapes functioning\u2014watering, pruning, repairing, replacing. It is where design meets reality over time. Today, maintenance is under pressure: to reduce costs, reduce water, reduce labor, reduce emissions. Every strategy to lower maintenance raises the question\u2014what are we willing to sacrifice? Choices about maintenance extend beyond site boundaries, touching supply chains, material production, CO\u2082 footprints, and global ecologies. Maintenance is -or should be- central in contemporary landscape architecture. A design is only as sustainable as its afterlife, and every decision about planting, surfaces, and water is also a decision about labor, ecology, and climate.","link":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/topics\/methods-mediations\/maintenance\/","name":"Maintenance","slug":"maintenance","taxonomy":"topics","parent":2788,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/topics"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/2788"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/landezine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?topics=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}