{"id":2192,"date":"2014-01-23T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/the-essential-point-is-that-a-particular\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:53","slug":"the-essential-point-is-that-a-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/the-essential-point-is-that-a-particular\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>The essential point is that a particular configuration of buildings is neither \u201cgood\u201d nor \u201cbad\u201d in absence of a serious examination of the social relations responsible for the construction of those buildings and the greater social processes that continue to shape the greater community in which those buildings exist. In other words, urbanism is not about an object, but about a set of overlapping, constitutive processes that produce a wide range of physical forms. The physical form is largely a reflection of these greater processes and forces.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/surlyurbanist.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/12\/the-inadequacy-of-good-urbanism.html\">The Inadequacy of \u201cGood\u201d Urbanism<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Not much to add here\u2014it\u2019s always good to remember good urbanism can\u2019t be reduced to recommendations that are \u201cdesign-based or centered on modifying the urban form\u201d.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essential point is that a particular configuration of buildings is neither \u201cgood\u201d nor \u201cbad\u201d in absence of a serious examination of the social relations responsible for the construction of those buildings and the greater social processes that continue to shape the greater community in which those buildings exist. In other words, urbanism is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/the-essential-point-is-that-a-particular\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}