{"id":1014,"date":"2020-07-19T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2020-07-19T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:23:03","slug":"in-search-of-context-in-alfresco-twickenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/19\/in-search-of-context-in-alfresco-twickenham\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Context in ‘Alfresco Twickenham’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the relative calm of July in the United Kingdom, when the COVID curve is flattened (for now), it is time to explore. I discussed Church Street<\/a> in Twickenham last month as a stage for the mythical “Equity Street in Pandemica<\/a>.” Today I returned to examine how the street has evolved as an alfresco icon, with Sunday dining underway on a cloudy day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church Street is closed for weekend street fairs on a semi-regular basis, but the more pervasive table and chair motif is new, and appears more spontaneous than customary. “Customary,” as well as the tongue-in-cheek captions below, are purposefully phrased, probing at questions of context (such as the overlay of a passeggiata<\/a> on Twickenham) that will be discussed much more in-depth<\/a> in Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character<\/em> upon release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tactical urbanists<\/a> do not always discuss whether the shoe fits, but only whether the shoe is needed. That may be enough for a pandemic in search of solutions. Or to endure, a unity of cultural tradition with imported solutions may become an outright necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cars Are Gone, for Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inside the Pub Moves Outside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Italy, France, or Both? Spare Chairs Rule.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bubbles of People, Distancing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fare una passeggiata<\/em>, in England.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More passeggiata<\/em>, merged with the medieval curve of Twickenham’s Oldest Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the relative calm of July in the United Kingdom, when the COVID curve is flattened (for now), it is time to explore. I discussed Church Street in Twickenham last month as a stage for the mythical “Equity Street in Pandemica.” Today I returned to examine how the street has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[674,25,31,657],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-character","tag-cities","tag-pandemic","tag-streets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sustainingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_2186-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C854&quality=89&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc03Hh-gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}