{"id":764,"date":"2011-10-17T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=764"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:51:59","slug":"after-zuccotti-park-seven-privately-owned-public-spaces-to-occupy-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/after-zuccotti-park-seven-privately-owned-public-spaces-to-occupy-next\/","title":{"rendered":"After Zuccotti Park: Seven Privately Owned Public Spaces to Occupy Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/164002\/after-zuccotti-park-seven-privately-owned-public-spaces-occupy-next\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_1166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Privately owned public spaces have proliferated in the past several decades\u2014there are almost 550 in New York City\u2014as a result of zoning concessions the city grants to real estate developers: in exchange for setting aside a nominally public space, property owners such as Brookfield are allowed to bypass height or setback restrictions on their buildings.<\/p>\n<p>But the problem with privately owned public spaces is that they\u2019re no substitution for purely public spaces, because First Amendment protections don\u2019t really apply when the owners of a space are non-governmental.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/164002\/after-zuccotti-park-seven-privately-owned-public-spaces-occupy-next\">After Zuccotti Park: Seven Privately Owned Public Spaces to Occupy Next | The Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Privately owned public spaces have proliferated in the past several decades\u2014there are almost 550 in New York City\u2014as a result of zoning concessions the city grants to real estate developers: in exchange for setting aside a nominally public space, property owners such as Brookfield are allowed to bypass height or setback restrictions on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22],"tags":[459,460,410,457,458,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}