{"id":642,"date":"2009-08-17T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2009-08-17T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:33:35","slug":"t-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/t-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"t-tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to figure out what the meaning of the apparent popularity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-burbia.com\/2009\/08\/05\/t-trees-social-housing\/\">&#8220;T-Tree&#8221; reburbia entry<\/a> is.\u00a0 It is currently right behind the New Urbanist submission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-burbia.com\/2009\/08\/04\/sprawl-building-types-repair-toolkit\/\">&#8220;Urban Sprawl Repair Kit&#8221;<\/a>, both of which have over twice as many votes as any of the other finalists.\u00a0 &#8220;Urban Sprawl Repair Kit&#8221;&#8216;s popularity doesn&#8217;t surprise me, as it is the only (a) New Urbanist and (b) traditionalist submission amongst the finalists and both of those -isms have huge constituencies.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think its explained by the reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habitat_67\">Habitat 67<\/a>, as I don&#8217;t think Safdie&#8217;s posse is that big.\u00a0 Maybe its the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Duck\">duck-like<\/a> concept (building = tree, windows = leaves, etc.)?\u00a0 Or the omission of cars, parking lots, and roads?\u00a0 Can anyone help me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to figure out what the meaning of the apparent popularity of the &#8220;T-Tree&#8221; reburbia entry is.\u00a0 It is currently right behind the New Urbanist submission &#8220;Urban Sprawl Repair Kit&#8221;, both of which have over twice as many votes as any of the other finalists.\u00a0 &#8220;Urban Sprawl Repair Kit&#8221;&#8216;s popularity doesn&#8217;t surprise me, as 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],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-re-burbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}