{"id":1088,"date":"2007-10-18T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/10\/preserving_and_changing_at_the\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:36:00","slug":"preserving_and_changing_at_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/preserving_and_changing_at_the.php","title":{"rendered":"Preserving and changing at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceosforcities.org\/conversations\/blog\/2007\/10\/jane_jacobs_in_an_age_of_globa.php\">CEOs for Cities blog<\/a> points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewblum.net\/typepad\/2007\/10\/local-cities-gl.html\">a wonderful piece by Andrew Blum<\/a> on the growing tension in urban planning &#8212; between local and global, between preservation and change, between scale and density. The idealized, localized, human-scale urban neighborhood of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Jacobs\">Jane Jacobs<\/a> is transforming right in front of us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nWhen I &#8221;look, listen, linger and think&#8221; about my corner of the world, I am persistently confronted with the broader world beyond. The barbershop chatter is in Creole, the cigar store might be closed for the end of Ramadan, and the cyclical chanting of capoeira, the Brazilian martial art, echoes from an upstairs dance studio. Planes pass overhead on their way to La Guardia. And at all hours people pause at the top of the subway stairs to finish their cell-phone conversations.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blum nudges the received wisdom of Jacobs&#8217; urban ideals, and wonders out loud if they resonate with or resist the forces at play. Is our current understanding of preservation and community helping either, or hurting both?<\/p>\n<p>The challenge Blum struggles with is well worth the struggle: How can cities (or any social structures) be both preserved and renewed? How can we balance the old-world personal and local interaction with the new world&#8217;s global reach? How can virtual and face-to-face conversations thrive alongside each other, and even intertwine? If those aren&#8217;t questions for cultural managers and arts organizations, I&#8217;m not sure what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEOs for Cities blog points to a wonderful piece by Andrew Blum on the growing tension in urban planning &#8212; between local and global, between preservation and change, between scale and density. The idealized, localized, human-scale urban neighborhood of Jane Jacobs is transforming right in front of us: When I &#8221;look, listen, linger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}