{"id":412,"date":"2009-07-07T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T00:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2009-07-07T01:07:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T01:07:48","slug":"paris-from-medieval-to-military-modern-photo-art-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/paris-from-medieval-to-military-modern-photo-art-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris from Medieval to Military Modern: Photo Art exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/12napoleon.html?scp=1&#038;sq=Turn%20Cramped%20Paris%20into%20City%20of%20Light?&#038;st=cse\">&#8220;Napoleon III and Paris&#8221;<\/a> photo exhibit @ Met&#8211;Interesting look the development of Paris from a Medieval city to a modern one. The take home message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haussmann redesigned Paris to make it easier for the military to sweep through the city; Moses opened New York to motor vehicles. Both men destroyed entire neighborhoods in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is to say,<\/p>\n<p>Automobility = Militarism.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is no coincidence that American traffic engineers manage traffic in what they call &#8220;platoons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Napoleon III and Paris&#8221; photo exhibit @ Met&#8211;Interesting look the development of Paris from a Medieval city to a modern one. The take home message: Haussmann redesigned Paris to make it easier for the military to sweep through the city; Moses opened New York to motor vehicles. Both men destroyed entire neighborhoods in the process. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,8,13,4],"tags":[95,165,1319],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-places-that-suck","category-politics","category-society","tag-auto-centric","tag-new-york-times","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}