{"id":1411,"date":"2009-07-24T14:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2009-08-07T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T00:06:53","slug":"new-site-johnson-street-bridge-dot-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2009\/07\/24\/new-site-johnson-street-bridge-dot-org\/","title":{"rendered":"New site: Johnson Street Bridge DOT org"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m involved with Mat Wright<\/a> and Ross Crockford<\/a> in a new website, Johnson Street Bridge<\/a>. Please check it out.<\/p>\n

And please take a look at my first blog post there, Bad Reason, 1<\/a>, subtitled “Bad reasons to spend money on JSB replacement.” I worked up some steam about what I consider bad civic leadership around here, too.<\/p>\n

Bottom line regarding my argument in Bad Reason, 1<\/a>: Whether ugly (“a brute”) or beautiful, the Johnson Street Bridge is interesting – and that’s the most important thing for a creative, urban economy. Just take a look at the amazing photos on Flickr<\/a>, tagged with johnsonstreetbridge<\/a>, for an inkling of the bridge’s ability to offer up interestingness<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Nothing is worse than boring – that’s what the suburbs are for. Whatever will replace the Johnson Street Bridge will be massively and blightingly boring, and therefore an affront to Victoria’s urban character.<\/p>\n

One wonders why our civic leaders are so intent on suburbanizing this city.<\/p>\n

Below, a photo by Victoria flickreena ngawangchodron<\/a> (hope she doesn’t mind being referenced by me like this, but it’s such an evocative shot):
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I’m involved with Mat Wright and Ross Crockford in a new website, Johnson Street Bridge. Please check it out. And please take a look at my first blog post there, Bad Reason, 1, subtitled “Bad reasons to spend money on JSB replacement.” I worked up some steam about what I consider bad civic leadership around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6171,96,1418],"tags":[882,64781,64765,3191],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-johnson-street-bridge","category-politics","category-victoria","tag-design","tag-johnson-street-bridge","tag-leadership","tag-suburbs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}