{"id":4670,"date":"2011-05-03T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2011-05-03T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T18:12:15","slug":"a-pre-modern-critique-of-the-new-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-pre-modern-critique-of-the-new-urbanism\/","title":{"rendered":"a pre-modern critique of the new urbanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A minor point, but this is kind of fascinating<\/a> — a critique of New Urbanism which, rather than going the common route of charging New Urbanism with nostalgic pre-modernism, argues that New Urbanism is insufficiently pre-modern — in this specific case, arguing that New Urbanists have praised a certain kind of narrow traditional street but produced a zoning code which doesn’t permit the construction of that kind of street.\u00a0 (It’s a bit like a right-wing critique of Wall Street — there’s certainly room to make it, but you don’t hear it often.)\u00a0 These guys<\/a> should be introduced to Rudofsky<\/a> and Alexander<\/a>, who (for what it’s worth) were arguing for a return to pre-modern urban patterns years before the New Urbanists showed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A minor point, but this is kind of fascinating — a critique of New Urbanism which, rather than going the common route of charging New Urbanism with nostalgic pre-modernism, argues that New Urbanism is insufficiently pre-modern — in this specific case, arguing that New Urbanists have praised a certain kind of narrow traditional street but […]<\/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":[578,215,576,577,403],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-urbanism","tag-christopher-alexander","tag-new-urbanism","tag-pre-modern","tag-rudofsky","tag-streets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}