{"id":542414,"date":"2010-04-23T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-23-los-angeles-without-traffic-in-pictures\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T23:00:53","slug":"los-angeles-without-trafficin-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542414","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles without traffic&#8212;in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jonathan Hiskes <\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/02\/52\/\">Tom Baker<\/a>Today in happy urban eye<br \/>\ncandy (previous installations <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-urban-advantage-steve-price-envisioning-future-urbanism\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-10-your-street-is-fat-narrow-streets-los-angeles\">here<\/a>)<br \/>\nphotographer <a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/\">Tom Baker<\/a> gives us a look at what some Los Angeles thoroughfares would look like without<br \/>\ntraffic.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Point being, L.A.&#8216;s built environment is<br \/>\none manner of placemaking&#8212;one that uses a lot of cement, takes up a lot of<br \/>\nspace, and makes it difficult to get around in any fashion except driving or<br \/>\nbusing. By removing vehicles and people, Baker dramatizes just how<br \/>\nout-of-scale these landscapes are to human bodies. They&#8217;re built for machines. Machines, people! (Says the guy on the streetcorner&#8230;) See <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-urban-advantage-steve-price-envisioning-future-urbanism\">Steve<br \/>\nPrice<\/a> for ideas on how to remake these kinds of places.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A few more from Baker&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/02\/52\/\">full<br \/>\ncollection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/02\/52\/\">Tom Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/02\/52\/\">Tom Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/tombakerphotography.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/02\/52\/\">Tom Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-23-ted-talk-on-building-a-greener-house\/\">TED talk on building a greener house<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-hey-look-denver-has-a-bike-sharing-program\/\">Hey, look: Denver has a bike-sharing program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-21-save-transit-rallies-start-up-around-us\/\">&#8216;Save transit&#8217; rallies start up around U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1290c86c6a9604de8ae20bc290327fb6&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1290c86c6a9604de8ae20bc290327fb6&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jonathan Hiskes Courtesy Tom BakerToday in happy urban eye candy (previous installations here and here) photographer Tom Baker gives us a look at what some Los Angeles thoroughfares would look like without traffic. Point being, L.A.&#8216;s built environment is one manner of placemaking&#8212;one that uses a lot of cement, takes up a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}