{"id":9572,"date":"2015-02-13T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2015-02-13T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:54:57","slug":"can-we-build-the-new-roman-roads-history-helps-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9572","title":{"rendered":"Can we build the new Roman Roads? History helps our future!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Transport, as part of a \u2018new vision for roads and the architectural features on and around them\u2019, has looked to history to help improve a dystopian present, as he called for the aesthetics and good design to be taken into account when planning new infrastructure and so \u2018banish ugly design from new road schemes\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Minister referenced lessons from history &#8211; feats of Roman engineering and the 1970s novel Concrete Island by JG Ballard, as well as the value of learning lessons from the past in implementing and managing new schemes \u2013 in a speech marking his vision stating that \u2018\u2026 today. Right here. Now, we have an opportunity. To banish ugly design from new road schemes. And make sure it never returns\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/beautiful-roads\" target=\"_blank\">Access the full speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=transport\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on transport<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=design\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on design\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Transport, as part of a \u2018new vision for roads and the architectural features on and around them\u2019, has looked to history to help improve a dystopian present, as he called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9572\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","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=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}