{"id":4505,"date":"2021-05-19T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T23:47:10","slug":"why-are-our-cities-built-for-6ft-tall-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/why-are-our-cities-built-for-6ft-tall-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Guardian, a review of a retrospective on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/may\/19\/why-are-our-cities-built-for-6ft-tall-men-the-female-architects-who-fought-back\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">80s design activists Matrix<\/a> who, as the pull quote states: <\/p>\n<h3>The female architects who fought back  &#8211; Fed up living in a world designed by and for men, 80s design activists Matrix declared war on every urban obstacle in their way. And their impact is still being felt today.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matrixfeministarchitecturearchive.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who were Matrix? <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/whats-on\/2021\/event\/how-we-live-now\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/832b3b739863c294e4bb2730850c80b6b3e7834f\/0_162_2440_1760\/master\/2440.jpg?width=645&#038;quality=45&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=max&#038;dpr=2&#038;s=3bb793f8a2191643f946407629958003\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Guardian, a review of a retrospective on 80s design activists Matrix who, as the pull quote states: The female architects who fought back &#8211; Fed up living in a world designed by and for men, 80s design activists Matrix declared war on every urban obstacle in their way. And their impact is &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/05\/19\/why-are-our-cities-built-for-6ft-tall-men\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3061,6,8,2308,13,14,15,17],"tags":[3334,3329,3330,3325,3327,670,3321,3322,3324,3323,3331,3326,3328,3332,1883,3333],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4505","6":"format-standard","7":"category-environment","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-feminism","10":"category-future-of-work","11":"category-politics","12":"category-racism","13":"category-science","14":"category-thinking-about","15":"post_tag-childcare","16":"post_tag-childrens-play-area","17":"post_tag-community-action","18":"post_tag-design","19":"post_tag-designed-environments","20":"post_tag-feminist","21":"post_tag-le-corbusier","22":"post_tag-le-modulor","23":"post_tag-matrix","24":"post_tag-matrix-feminist-design-co-operative","25":"post_tag-participatory-planning","26":"post_tag-public-space","27":"post_tag-shared-kitchen","28":"post_tag-squatting","29":"post_tag-women","30":"post_tag-workers-co-operatives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}