{"id":3286,"date":"2012-02-27T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:26:39","slug":"urban-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/urban-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our City is currently involved in several urban design discussions simultaneously.<br \/>\nAre cities gender neutral? Our city, being Charlotte&#8217;s Ville. Maybe she can multitask. Talk about redesigning her central park and her bridge downtown and not cut off the wrong leg by mistake.<br \/>\nI have missed the bridge-design events &#038; discussion. Watching the video by Dan Bluestone and Brian Wimer has me playing catch-up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXM4TAqTWBs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why do we allow our bad things to happen to our cities? Why do we allow our cities to be designed by autos and fire engines?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunstler.com\/index.php\">Jim Kunstler<\/a> talked a bit about the Law of Perverse Outcomes in his November 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kunstler.com\/eyesore_201111.html\">&#8220;Eyesore of the Month&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/james-howard-kunstler-eyesore.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.kunstler.com\/eyesore_201111.html\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our City is currently involved in several urban design discussions simultaneously. Are cities gender neutral? Our city, being Charlotte&#8217;s Ville. Maybe she can multitask. Talk about redesigning her central park and her bridge downtown and not cut off the wrong leg by mistake. I have missed the bridge-design events &#038; discussion. Watching the video by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/urban-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Urban Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,32,34,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-charlottesville","category-government","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}