{"id":4711,"date":"2011-05-11T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2011-05-10T21:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T02:07:37","slug":"the-maracana-as-public-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/the-maracana-as-public-space\/","title":{"rendered":"the maracan\u00e3 as public space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nate_berg\">Nate Berg<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/sports\/soccer\/06maracana.html?_r=3&amp;pagewanted=all\">nice article<\/a> in the New York Times on how Brazil&#8217;s Maracan\u00e3 &#8212; the massive stadium built for the 1950 World Cup, where some two hundred thousand spectators watched the final between Brazil and Uruguay &#8212; has traditionally served as an important public space (&#8220;a rare type of space in Rio where you can actually get together people of different social classes&#8221;), a function which is now threatened by renovations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, as the modernization of stadium facilities promises to finish pricing out Rio&#8217;s masses.<\/p>\n<p>Berg&#8217;s article reminds me that I&#8217;d love to see a study of how stadia function (historically, presently) as public spaces. \u00a0We&#8217;ve never attempted anything so rigorous here, but we have produced a few brief scattered thoughts on stadia, from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/from-constant-to-variable\/\">Allianz Arena as a test case for networked urbanism<\/a> to touring Soccer City Stadium from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/soccer-city-in-infrastructural-context\/\">above<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/07\/soccer-city\/\">within<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/the-cloud\/\">reading Dan Hill on the design of &#8220;The Cloud&#8221; for London&#8217;s Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Berg has a nice article in the New York Times on how Brazil&#8217;s Maracan\u00e3 &#8212; the massive stadium built for the 1950 World Cup, where some two hundred thousand spectators watched the final between Brazil and Uruguay &#8212; has traditionally served as an important public space (&#8220;a rare type of space in Rio where [&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],"tags":[585,348,223,586],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-brazil","tag-public-space","tag-soccer","tag-tn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","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=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}