{"id":1705,"date":"2014-08-30T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2014-08-30T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:32:34","slug":"in-case-you-missed-it-im-on-the-guardian-cities-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"In case you missed it: I&#8217;m on the Guardian Cities blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/aug\/26\/yorkshire-dales-family-designing-cities-in-iraq\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2014\/8\/26\/1409046716738\/63dbcab5-00f9-4832-893d-c41c77abb35a-460x276.jpeg?resize=460%2C276\" alt=\"\u2018We can\u2019t go to Iraq because it\u2019s too dangerous\u2019 ... Derrick and Elliot Hartley of Garsdale Design in Sedbergh. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018We can\u2019t go to Iraq because it\u2019s too dangerous\u2019 &#8230; Derrick and Elliot Hartley of Garsdale Design in Sedbergh. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A week or so back I met with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/stuartjeffries\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Jeffries a writer for the Guardian<\/a> to chat about our interesting in work in Iraq and our exciting future in 3D. \u00a0 The result was what seems like a popular article in the Guardian Cities blog.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst many people have quoted other passages one of my favourites is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To my eyes, there\u2019s a touch of the pleasure of playing video games to Elliot\u2019s work \u2013 certainly it looks like great fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s not wrong!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1713\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1713 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-19-14.02.02.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Elliot Hartley and Stuart Jeffries hanging out... \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-19-14.02.02.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-19-14.02.02.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-19-14.02.02.jpg?w=1392 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-08-19-14.02.02.jpg?w=2088 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and Stuart Jeffries hanging out&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot of the comments, both below the article and on twitter. \u00a0To be fair I think it&#8217;s been quite a positive response, clearly the article didn&#8217;t address everyone&#8217;s concerns though. \u00a0As to the usual trolling well that&#8217;s the internet. \u00a0 I think I will write a response to the article and post it here in the coming days, more for my therapy than anything else. \u00a0<strong>Thank you to all those who retweeted the story and responded both positively and negatively to the story, I genuinely mean that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/aug\/26\/yorkshire-dales-family-designing-cities-in-iraq\" target=\"_blank\">You can read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so back I met with Stuart Jeffries a writer for the Guardian to chat about our interesting in work in Iraq and our exciting future in 3D. \u00a0 The result was what seems like a popular article in the Guardian Cities blog. Whilst many people have quoted other passages one of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":1713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,226,12,116,145,64,7,120,25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-3d","category-arabic","category-arcgis","category-city-creation","category-cityengine","category-esri","category-gis","category-iraq","category-planning","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}