{"id":4365,"date":"2011-02-23T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2011-02-23T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T16:44:19","slug":"tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/tahrir-square\/","title":{"rendered":"tahrir square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently anticipating <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/revolutionary-space\/\">our post yesterday on revolutionary space<\/a>, <em>Dwell<\/em>&#8216;s Aaron Britt interviews Nezar AlSayyad, author of the forthcoming Cairo: Histories of a City, about the design of Tahrir Square:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Why from a design angle was it so successful as a point of protest?<\/em><br \/>\nTwenty-three streets lead to different parts of it, which is why it was so successful with the demonstrators. There isn&#8217;t one big boulevard that you can block off, and there are two bridges that lead to it as well. One of them saw a clash between the regime and the demonstrators. It&#8217;s also the case that all of downtown Cairo, which isn&#8217;t that big, has a street that leads to side or another of Tahrir Square.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwell.com\/articles\/design-and-history-of-tahrir-square.html\">full interview<\/a> at <em>Dwell<\/em>; link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/namhenderson\">Nam Henderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently anticipating our post yesterday on revolutionary space, Dwell&#8216;s Aaron Britt interviews Nezar AlSayyad, author of the forthcoming Cairo: Histories of a City, about the design of Tahrir Square: Why from a design angle was it so successful as a point of protest? Twenty-three streets lead to different parts of it, which is why it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[232,347,543,538,542],"class_list":["post-4365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-urbanism","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-nezar-alsayyad","tag-revolutionary-space","tag-tahrir-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}