{"id":5725,"date":"2010-01-22T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2010-01-22T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:41:25","slug":"urban_umbrellas_comely_canopies_sightly_scaffolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/urban_umbrellas_comely_canopies_sightly_scaffolding.html","title":{"rendered":"Urban Umbrellas, Comely Canopies, Sightly Scaffolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer the name &#8220;temporal portico,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/shedding_the_sheds_on_sidewalks_yHlpZnEHN6BVbaV28kqNRO\">&#8220;urban umbrella&#8221; will suffice until we come up with something better for the rainbow-colored scaffolding alternative<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a bid to beautify city sidewalks, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday rolled out a replacement for the hideous steel and plywood sheds that have been leaking rain water or blocking sunshine for pedestrians outside construction sites since the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These structures reflect the face of a city that is constantly changing, yet the sheds themselves haven&#8217;t evolved at all in the past five decades,&#8221; the mayor said. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to bring them into the 21st century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The shed&#8217;s replacement, dubbed the urban umbrella, was picked from among 164 designs submitted from 28 countries. The winner, Young-Hwan Choi, is a 28-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer the name &#8220;temporal portico,&#8221; but &#8220;urban umbrella&#8221; will suffice until we come up with something better for the rainbow-colored scaffolding alternative: In a bid to beautify city sidewalks, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday rolled out a replacement for the hideous steel and plywood sheds that have been leaking rain water or blocking sunshine for pedestrians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5726,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}