{"id":1629,"date":"2010-02-08T08:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2010-02-08T08:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:54:34","slug":"thinking-about-built-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/02\/08\/thinking-about-built-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about built form"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started writing something long and complex about how the house I was born in still shapes my ideas of how and where to live. (I was born at home, with midwife.)<\/p>\n

It got too complicated.<\/p>\n

So here’s a picture of the building instead:<\/p>\n

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1 Berger Allee, Duesseldorf<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s the one right at the corner. (Full photo here<\/a>.) When we lived there, Duesseldorf’s Altstadt<\/em> was not yet (re-)gentrified and the doctor who practiced next door provided (then illegal) abortions to the area prostitutes. But you can see it used to be (and, I’m told, is, once more) a handsome building on a street with equally fine apartment buildings. Five to six floors of apartments, and retail on the ground floor (a couple of years ago “my” building had an art gallery – not sure if that’s still there now). Frontage right to the sidewalk (or Trottoir<\/em>, as Rhinelanders called them), and green spaces in the enclosed Hof<\/em> (courtyard) behind the buildings.<\/p>\n

There’s something about that density I really like.<\/p>\n

(Maybe this will be the year I finally manage to read Life, A User’s Manual<\/a> by Georges Perec.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An aerial view street view brings into clear relief the house I was born in – prompting some observations on urban density and what makes it appealing to me.<\/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":[1061,2071,1242,2149],"tags":[14735,14733,14734],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-housing","category-just_so","category-urbanism","tag-apartments","tag-berger_allee","tag-duesseldorf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}