{"id":2354,"date":"2017-06-23T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2017-06-23T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T16:17:12","slug":"suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/06\/suburbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Main streets with businesses, side streets with homes. Copy\/paste forever.<\/em><\/p>\n

I just love the suburbs. I always did.<\/p>\n

First I grew up in a small village. Which is great Quality of Life but you understand pretty quickly that it\u2019s too small: you know everyone and everyone knows your every move. For decades to come. It\u2019s kind of wrong at some point.<\/p>\n

The city. I spent a lot of time in Paris, roaming sidewalks with my grandparents, skateboarding later. I\u2019ve never loved it. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s neat to live in towers and move under the earth all day, all year long. We despise cockroaches but we live exactly like them and like to pretend that it\u2019s the ultimate thing. Great (unaffordable or run-down) buildings, nice (always late and ultra-packed) trains and complete anonymity filled with neighbors going crazy in their small boxes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not for it.<\/p>\n

The suburbs. A mix of neighborhoods and industries on a horizontal plane. That\u2019s the favorite part of my childhood and of my life today: biking around, discovering a part of the city that is half taken over by Nature, half an ancient factory. Skating a brand new plaza. Driving a few miles to go to a friend\u2019s backyard and BBQ all evening. Easy parking. Walking and saying hi. Being in the open, no wind tunnel created by high verticals. The suburbs doesn\u2019t care about what it is. It just is. It mutates and yet stays the same. it\u2019s the trifecta of shelter, work and nature. It\u2019s simple, real and human.<\/p>\n

In a world where telecommuting, driverless cars and communities are becoming so prominent, suburbs will expand. I mean they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Main streets with businesses, side streets with homes. Copy\/paste forever. I just love the suburbs. I always did. First I grew up in a small village. Which is great Quality of Life but you understand pretty quickly that it\u2019s too small: you know everyone and everyone knows your every move. For decades to come. It\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}