{"id":7972,"date":"2012-02-16T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:31","slug":"urban-planet-jay-walkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/16\/urban-planet-jay-walkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Jay Walkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=26064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"walksign\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/walksign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?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><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/transportation\/blogs\/on-a-sustainable-street-there-are-no-jaywalkers\">Mother Nature Network<\/a>, Chris Turner asks, where did the term &#8220;jay walker&#8221; come from? Back in the early twentieth century, &#8220;jay walkers&#8221; were those who carelessly wandered in the way of other pedestrians and later motorists. &#8216;Jay&#8217; was a derogatory term for a hick,&#8221; someone who didn\u2019t know how to act in the city&#8221;. City ordinances against jay walking began to appear as early as 1912. Turner writes, &#8220;the simple brilliance of the jaywalking idea is that it changed the\u00a0<em>mental<\/em>\u00a0landscape of the city. A space that had once been for everyone \u2013 the street \u2013 was now just for cars. To challenge the automobile\u2019s dominance was to be reckless and dumb and behind the times \u2013 a fool, a hick, a rube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theihno\/\">theihno<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><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\/#!\/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>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. On\u00a0Mother Nature Network, Chris Turner asks, where did the term &#8220;jay walker&#8221; come from? 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