{"id":24579,"date":"2010-07-22T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:03:35","slug":"city-planning-and-the-blue-and-white-street-tiles-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/22\/city-planning-and-the-blue-and-white-street-tiles-of-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"City Planning: The Blue-and-White Street Tiles of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In New Orleans sidewalk corners are adorned with delightful blue-and-white tiles, originally dating from the 1870s<\/a>, telling you the name of the street you are crossing:<\/p>\n

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As I stepped over some of these, it occurred to met that they told a story about city planning.\u00a0 Unlike the street signs in most cities (including New Orleans) that are attached to poles and displayed high, these can’t be seen by drivers.\u00a0 These are designed for pedestrians, and perhaps bikers, using sidewalks.\u00a0 They reflect a time when planners were designing the city for people on foot.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In New Orleans sidewalk corners are adorned with delightful blue-and-white tiles, originally dating from the 1870s, telling you the name of the street you are crossing: As I stepped over some of these, it occurred to met that they told a story about city planning.\u00a0 Unlike the street signs in most cities (including New Orleans) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,341,307],"class_list":["post-24579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-ruralurban","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24579"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59919,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions\/59919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}