{"id":14330,"date":"2012-05-02T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=14330"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:03:59","slug":"urban-planet-weird-wednesday-kansas-citys-community-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/05\/02\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-kansas-citys-community-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City&#8217;s Community Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=29349\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"44726082_be6c924d1a_z\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/44726082_be6c924d1a_z-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\nWeird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parking garages usually don&#8217;t make it very high on a city&#8217;s list of urban beautification projects \u2014 most end up looking pretty similar to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City, MO is one of the citys who have broken the mould. The parking garage of city&#8217;s downtown public library branch has a 25-foot tall &#8220;bookshelf&#8221; facade made from signboard mylar that features the spines of a number of local stories as well as many famous works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 22 titles were suggested by Kansas City residents and chosen by the library&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of books included are: Kansas City Stories vol 1&amp;2, <em>Catch 22, <\/em>a collection of childrens stories<em>, Silent Spring, O Pioneers!, 100 Years of Sulitude, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Fahrenheit 451, The Republic, The Adventures of Hickleberry Finn, Tao Te Ching, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Black Elk Speaks, Invisible Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, <\/em>the journals of Lewis and Clark&#8217;s expedition across America<em>, Undaunted Courage, Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities, Charlotte&#8217;s Web, Romeo and Juliet, <\/em>and a biography of Harry S. Truman<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timsamoff\/44726082\/\">timsamoff<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Parking garages usually don&#8217;t make it very high on a city&#8217;s list of urban beautification projects \u2014 most end up looking pretty similar to each other. Kansas City, MO is one of the citys who have<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/05\/02\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-kansas-citys-community-bookshelf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City&#8217;s Community Bookshelf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[1527,5154,7416,796,514,7410,2797,7411,7415,7417,7412,7419,7418,7413,7414,3536,222],"class_list":["post-14330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-america","tag-charlotte","tag-charlottes-web","tag-clark","tag-facebook","tag-harry-s-truman","tag-kansas-city","tag-lewis","tag-o-pioneers","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-tao-te-ching","tag-the-adventures","tag-the-republic","tag-their-eyes-were-watching-god","tag-to-kill-a-mockingbird","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City&#039;s Community Bookshelf - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/05\/02\/urban-planet-weird-wednesday-kansas-citys-community-bookshelf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City&#039;s Community Bookshelf - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. 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