{"id":14952,"date":"2012-01-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2012-01-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T10:00:00","slug":"the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/08\/the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death And Life Of Great American Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed this one from a friend who&#8217;s interested in architecture. I didn&#8217;t completely appreciate it as I was flipping through it, but after a while I came to see it for what it was- a stunning bottom-up observation of the huge beast of society, and a tremendous understanding of how little interactions make a big difference. It becomes clear that cities are living organisms, and it&#8217;s startling how simple principles of design can make or break them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=visaisaherowo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0679644334&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed this one from a friend who&#8217;s interested in architecture. I didn&#8217;t completely appreciate it as I was flipping through it, but after a while I came to see it for what it was- a stunning bottom-up observation of the huge beast of society, and a tremendous understanding of&hellip; <\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[823],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3Ta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}