{"id":210120454,"date":"2011-08-29T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210120454"},"modified":"2011-08-29T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:47:34","slug":"the-popsicle-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210120454","title":{"rendered":"The popsicle test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Switchboard, from NRDC by Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC<br \/>\nIn a recent post on his firm\u2019s excellent blog, PlacesShakers and NewsMakers, Scott Doyon reminds us of the \u201cpopsicle test\u201d of a well-designed neighborhood:  if an 8-year-old kid can safely go somewhere to buy a popsicle, and get back home before it melts, chances are it\u2019s a neighborhood that works.  Note that there\u2019s no planning jargon in there:  nothing explicitly about mixed uses, or connected streets, or sidewalks, or traffic calming, or enough density to put eyes on the street.  But, if you think about it, it\u2019s all there.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n*******************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: Yet too many are essentially saying &quot;No, we don&#8217;t want that, we want to go fast in cars first and other peoples kids come last.&quot;]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rss.nrdcfeeds.org\/~r\/switchboard_kbenfield\/~3\/FQEibJuDIj4\/the_popsicle_test_the_hallowee.html\">https:\/\/rss.nrdcfeeds.org\/~r\/switchboard_kbenfield\/~3\/FQEibJuDIj4\/the_popsicle_test_the_hallowee.html<\/a>oldId.20110829224734425<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Switchboard, from NRDC by Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC In a recent post on his firm\u2019s excellent blog, PlacesShakers and NewsMakers, Scott Doyon reminds us of the \u201cpopsicle test\u201d of a well-designed neighborhood: if an 8-year-old kid can safely go somewhere to buy a popsicle, and get back home before it melts, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=210120454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The popsicle test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210120454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210120454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210120454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210120454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210120454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210120454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210120454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}