{"id":311,"date":"2005-06-05T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/photos-and-no-cars\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T19:14:15","slug":"photos-and-no-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/photos-and-no-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos and no cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's about time I started posting on this thing again.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a picture of me from sometime around 1982-1983:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/gennie\/aa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n(the girl on the right is Alice, a childhood friend).<\/p>\n<p>And here's one of Miss Gennie:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/gennie\/sitting.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I was looking at a fascinating website the other day - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfree.com\">carfree.com<\/a>. It's all about city design, specifically how to design cities in such a way that cars are not necessary. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfree.com\/topology.html\">six lobe reference design<\/a> is particularly interesting, as is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfree.com\/design\/index.html\">design library<\/a> which contains pictures of lots of interesting elements of (mostly European) cities designed without cars in mind. While I appreciate the convenience of having a car, I think on the whole I would prefer to live somewhere where having one isn't necessary (especially if no-one else there had one either so that the problems of car noise, pollution and getting run over would be eliminated.) When I was living in Cambridge I never felt the need to have a car and always thought how much nicer it would be if more of the streets were pedestrianized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's about time I started posting on this thing again. Here's a picture of me from sometime around 1982-1983: (the girl on the right is Alice, a childhood friend). And here's one of Miss Gennie: I was looking at a fascinating website the other day - carfree.com. It's all about city design, specifically how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commuting","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}