{"id":1020,"date":"2008-06-21T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/06\/21\/first-and-second-prize-philadelphia-car-freedom\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T17:05:26","slug":"first-and-second-prize-philadelphia-car-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/06\/21\/first-and-second-prize-philadelphia-car-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"First (and second) prize? Philadelphia (car) freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inga Saffron&#8217;s <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/columnists\/inga_saffron\/20080620_Nutter_speech_inspires_city_planners.html\">column<\/a> about a recent speech by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter includes this great sound bite from the mayor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are a walkable city, increasingly home to bicycles,&#8221; Nutter declared. &#8220;We want to preserve our urban form. <span>We do not want the automobile and its design requirements to dominate the landscape<\/span>.&#8221;  [emphasis added] See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/columnists\/inga_saffron\/20080620_Nutter_speech_inspires_city_planners.html\">Nutter speech inspires city planners<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bingo.  Do it in Philadelphia and in all cities.<\/p>\n<p>Video of Mayor Nutter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutter2007.com\/index.php?\/blog\/watch_mayor_nutters_speech_to_the_city_planning_commission\">addressing Philadelphia&#8217;s Planning Commission<\/a>, June 18\/08.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inga Saffron&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer column about a recent speech by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter includes this great sound bite from the mayor: &#8220;We are a walkable city, increasingly home to bicycles,&#8221; Nutter declared. &#8220;We want to preserve our urban form. We do not want the automobile and its design requirements to dominate the landscape.&#8221; [emphasis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1419,2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-urbanism"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}