{"id":793,"date":"2009-09-24T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2009-09-24T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T20:46:04","slug":"from-wasted-spaces-to-people-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/from-wasted-spaces-to-people-places\/","title":{"rendered":"From Wasted Spaces to People Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I very much enjoy Allison Arieff&#8217;s <em><a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: By Design (blog) by Allison Arieff\" href=\"http:\/\/arieff.blogs.nytimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Design<\/a> <\/em>column in the NYT. She is one of the most insightful observers of &#8216;place&#8217; in the country right now&#8211;definitely the heiress to Jane Jacobs!<\/p>\n<p>Her latest post, <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;Pavement to Parks&quot; By Design (blog) by Allison Arieff\" href=\"http:\/\/arieff.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/22\/pavement-to-parks\/?ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pavement to Parks,&#8221;<\/a> discusses landbanking underutilized land for fun, but temporary, purposes. What a great way to get us through this real estate recession.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Isthmus: Friends of Union Corners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/theguide\/details.php?event=227923\" target=\"_blank\">a citizen group is toying with new ideas<\/a> for\u00a0the <a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"Isthmus: &quot;Work halts at Union Corners housing&quot; by Marc Eisen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailypage.com\/daily\/article.php?article=7657\" target=\"_blank\">dead-in-the-water Union Corners site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De-paving is becoming all the rage!<\/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":[175,18,5,12,452],"tags":[481,482,484,55,184,165,483,427,486,485],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-creative-business","category-environment","category-madison-politics","category-urban-designplanninggeography","tag-allison-arieff","tag-by-design","tag-friends-of-union-corners","tag-madison","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-new-york-times","tag-pavvement-to-parks","tag-re-use","tag-reinventing-places","tag-union-corners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}