{"id":8243,"date":"2012-03-29T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:28","slug":"urban-planet-houstons-crosswalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/29\/urban-planet-houstons-crosswalks\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Houston&#8217;s Crosswalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=27809\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"houston\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/houston.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/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><\/p>\n<p><em><\/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>Houston, Texas is not known for its innovations in planning, but check out the vibrant crosswalks outside its Museum of Fine Art. This post on<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nuritavni.com\/2011\/04\/face-of-the-city-cultural-crosswalks\/\"> Drilling for Art<\/a> examines the diversity of crosswalks across America (many of which are named after animals) and questions their ability to provide safe crossing for pedestrians.\u00a0 <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nuritavni.com\/2011\/04\/face-of-the-city-cultural-crosswalks\/\">Drilling for Art<\/a><br \/>\n<\/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. Houston, Texas is not known for its innovations in planning, but check out the vibrant crosswalks outside its Museum of Fine<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/29\/urban-planet-houstons-crosswalks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Houston&#8217;s Crosswalks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[5302],"tags":[821,882,4630,4631,826,1731,550],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-america","tag-facebook","tag-houston","tag-museum-of-fine-art","tag-texas","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: Houston&#039;s Crosswalks - Spacing Ottawa<\/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\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/29\/urban-planet-houstons-crosswalks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Houston&#039;s Crosswalks - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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