{"id":2504,"date":"2012-10-28T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:32:59","slug":"sound-the-panic-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/sound-the-panic-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound the panic alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nacto.org\/\">NACTO<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nacto.org\/designingcities\/\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a>, hosted at NYU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/life\/resources-and-services\/kimmel-center.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kimmel Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2505\" title=\"IMAG1043\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?resize=612%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?resize=612%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?resize=179%2C300&amp;ssl=1 179w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?resize=89%2C150&amp;ssl=1 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?resize=400%2C668&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?w=1952&amp;ssl=1 1952w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?w=1250 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1043.jpg?w=1875 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, shit.<\/p>\n<p>I post this both as an homage to Lydia DePillis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/housingcomplex\/tag\/pit-stops\/\">&#8216;pit stops&#8217; series<\/a> when she was writing Housing Complex, and to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/post\/hurricane-sandy-and-washington-dc-detailed-storm-timeline-maps-and-frequent-questions\/2012\/10\/28\/2c24af1a-2127-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html#\">pending doom of\u00a0Hurricane Sandy<\/a> advancing upon the Northeast. \u00a0Let the panic commence.<\/p>\n<p>(for actual NACTO coverage, check out summaries from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2012\/10\/26\/nacto-wrap-up-cities-are-doing-it-for-themselves\/\" target=\"_blank\">the commissioners<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2012\/10\/25\/brookings-bruce-katz-transportation-reform-key-to-metropolitan-revolution-79291\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Katz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.archpaper.com\/wordpress\/archives\/48812?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AN_blog+%28A%2FN+Blog%29\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary LaHood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeportland.org\/tag\/nyc-2012\" target=\"_blank\">and more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen during this week&#8217;s NACTO conference, hosted at NYU&#8217;s Kimmel Center: Oh, shit. I post this both as an homage to Lydia DePillis&#8217; &#8216;pit stops&#8217; series when she was writing Housing Complex, and to the pending doom of\u00a0Hurricane Sandy advancing upon the Northeast. \u00a0Let the panic commence. (for actual NACTO coverage, check out summaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[359,360,134],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-nacto","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-Eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}