{"id":8391,"date":"2011-10-09T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2011-10-09T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:34:32","slug":"shareable-architectural-myopia-designing-for-industry-not-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8391","title":{"rendered":"Shareable | Architectural Myopia: Designing for Industry, Not People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/architectural-myopia-designing-for-industry-not-people\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4285705076_93baf51ac8-480x358.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last half-century, the clear result of \u201carchitectural myopia\u201d is buildings whose makers have been so concerned with the drama of their appearance that they fail on the most fundamental human criteria. They isolate people; they do not provide enough light; or provide a poor quality of light; they provide a hostile pedestrian environment at their edges; they cause excessive shade; or create winds in what is known as a \u201ccanyon effect\u201d; or they trap pollutants in the \u201csick building syndrome\u201d; they use resources wastefully; etc. Moreover, the buildings themselves are a wasteful use of resources, because they are not likely to be well-loved, cared for, repaired, modified, and re-used over many years. In short, it is not just that people find them ugly, but they represent a fundamentally unsustainable way of building human environments.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/architectural-myopia-designing-for-industry-not-people\">Shareable: Architectural Myopia: Designing for Industry, Not People<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last half-century, the clear result of \u201carchitectural myopia\u201d is buildings whose makers have been so concerned with the drama of their appearance that they fail on the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[431,430,432,125,51,146],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-jane-jacobs","tag-modernism","tag-new-urbanism","tag-pedestrian","tag-preservation","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}