{"id":275581763,"date":"2013-09-25T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=275581763"},"modified":"2013-09-25T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T14:29:23","slug":"nacto-urban-street-design-guide-sets-out-to-change-the-dna-of-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=275581763","title":{"rendered":"NACTO Urban Street Design Guide Sets Out to Change the DNA of Our Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Among all the information in this article I found this worth highlighting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMichael Kimmelman, architecture critic of the New York Times, said Sadik-Khan has been \u201cvery tactical and successful in providing people with things they then realize they want.\u201d But before people experienced it, who would ever think to ban cars from Broadway or replace underutilized parking lots with parks? \u201cYou can show what something can be by painting it, and if it doesn\u2019t work you can take it back,\u201d Sadik-Khan said. \u201cYou can put it back. And I think that lowers the anxiety people feel about change. They\u2019ll try it; if they like it great. If not, it\u2019s paint.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s gone a long way to increase the buy-in for these different kinds of approaches,\u201d she went on. \u201cAnd then people can see it and touch it and feel it. It\u2019s not a planning study, it\u2019s not a computer model \u2014 and people like it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/09\/24\/nacto-urban-street-design-guide-sets-out-to-change-the-dna-of-our-cities\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/09\/24\/nacto-urban-street-design-guide-sets-out-to-change-the-dna-of-our-cities\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B&#8217; Spokes: Among all the information in this article I found this worth highlighting: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of the New York Times, said Sadik-Khan has been \u201cvery tactical and successful in providing people with things they then realize they want.\u201d But before people experienced it, who would ever think to ban cars from Broadway &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=275581763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NACTO Urban Street Design Guide Sets Out to Change the DNA of Our Cities&#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-275581763","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\/275581763","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=275581763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275581763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275581763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275581763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275581763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}