{"id":1073,"date":"2006-08-10T17:59:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/engines\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:59:58","slug":"engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/engines","title":{"rendered":"Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

This neat post from Virginia Postrel<\/a> is about a Metropolis<\/em> writer who recently read Jane Jacobs<\/a> when examining criticism of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, which is also discussed in the new issue of New York<\/em><\/a>. Or, as the NYTimes (in bed with the project’s real estate developer) sez, “Rah-rah!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

(I added a link about the project<\/a> in the blogroll.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This neat post from Virginia Postrel is about a Metropolis writer who recently read Jane Jacobs when examining criticism of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, which is also discussed in the new issue of New York. Or, as the NYTimes (in bed with the project’s real estate developer) sez, “Rah-rah!” (I added a link … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Engines”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-suburbs","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-engines","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":257,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/better-not-mess-with-major-tom","url_meta":{"origin":1073,"position":0},"title":"Better not mess with Major Tom","author":"Gil","date":"June 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've never been a Right Stuff rah-rah kinda guy about space flight, but I'm happy that Michael Melvill just piloted off the first private manned space flight. 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