{"id":4568,"date":"2016-08-02T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2016-07-31T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:58:11","slug":"good-idea-a-place-to-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-a-place-to-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEA: a Place to Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most cities have a limited supply of open spaces, which gives incredible value to those places that do invite relaxation and socialization. In light of this fact, one neighborhood in Montreal has worked to create mini-parks, or \u201cparklets,\u201d in the parking lanes of its streets, an idea that gained global traction since <a href=\"http:\/\/pavementtoparks.sfplanning.org\/parklets.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u2019s Parklet Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was named <em>Placottoir<\/em>, meaning \u201ca place to chat.\u201d With the help of the borough government, shipping containers have been recycled into new public spaces that have been colorfully painted by local artists, and include cut-out windows, abundant seating, and pleasant greenery. The containers occupy three parking spaces and serve pedestrians looking to eat, socialize, and people-watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; Project for Public Spaces<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/places\/lqc\/placottoir-a-place-to-chat\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4652 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/container-canvas-600x600.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/places\/lqc\/placottoir-a-place-to-chat\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pps.org\/places\/lqc\/placottoir-a-place-to-chat<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most cities have a limited supply of open spaces, which gives incredible value to those places that do invite relaxation and socialization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-a-place-to-chat\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":4569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,3,10,70,7,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}