{"id":20088,"date":"2018-09-08T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20088"},"modified":"2018-09-08T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:07:33","slug":"ihbcs-ihmo-signpost-1-what-if-mothers-or-teenagers-designed-our-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20088","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018IHMO\u2019 signpost 1: \u2018What if mothers or teenagers designed our cities?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/London_Greenwich_Peninsula_aerial_view_commons_wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20089\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/London_Greenwich_Peninsula_aerial_view_commons_wiki.png\" alt=\"river and buildings\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>An opinion piece in the <em>Guardian<\/em> by Christine Murray (founder of the Women in Architecture Awards) invites us to consider what our cities would look like if cities reflected their diverse populations, prompted by a recent architectural visualisation of a proposed London development where those featured were overwhelmingly able bodied and white.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image of Greenwich Peninsula: By Kleon3 &#8211; Own work,<br \/>\nCC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=44805834<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Christine Murray writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Most architecture graduates think they\u2019re designing access ramps for the odd wheelchair, not every\u00a0child under three\u2019\u2026 \u2018Architects are overwhelmingly male and pale, young and privileged, and there are legitimate concerns about them designing our cities in their image..\u2019 \u2018If teenagers designed cities, charging your phone would be a human right\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/aug\/27\/architects-diversity-cities-designed-mothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece in the Guardian by Christine Murray (founder of the Women in Architecture Awards) invites us to consider what our cities would look like if cities reflected their diverse populations, prompted by a recent architectural visualisation of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20090,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions\/20090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}