{"id":14,"date":"2006-01-22T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/01\/flying-visit-to-lyon\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:37:24","slug":"flying-visit-to-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/flying-visit-to-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying visit to Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few pictures from a recent 48 hour visit to collaborators in Lyon.  The pictures are from the pedestrian walkways around la Part-Dieu &#8211; a classic example of 60&#8217;s enthusiasm for creating efficient multi-lane routes for traffic and relegating pedestrians to soulless concrete walkways and subways.  See how popular these are on a busy Saturday morning?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/flying-visit-to-lyon\/part-dieu-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/Part_Dieu_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Part Dieu 1\" title=\"Part Dieu 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4440\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/flying-visit-to-lyon\/part-dieu-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/Part_Dieu_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Part Dieu 2\" title=\"Part Dieu 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Two pictures from the walkway above rue Servient [45 45 39 N 4 51 15 E].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/flying-visit-to-lyon\/credit-lyonnais\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/Credit_Lyonnais-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Credit Lyonnais\" title=\"Credit Lyonnais\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>View up the Cr\u00e9dit Lyonnais tower<\/em>: nicknamed locally &#8220;le crayon&#8221; (the pencil), the Cr\u00e9dit Lyonnais tower is landmark in the Lyon skyline.  The bank itself crashed spectacularly in the early 90&#8217;s as a result of risky speculation in the 80&#8217;s (although debate continues over whether the collapse itself or the subsequent bail-out by the French government was the greater scandal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few pictures from a recent 48 hour visit to collaborators in Lyon. The pictures are from the pedestrian walkways around la Part-Dieu &#8211; a classic example of 60&#8217;s enthusiasm for creating efficient multi-lane routes for traffic and relegating pedestrians to soulless concrete walkways and subways. See how popular these are on a busy Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[190,149],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-built-environment","category-france","tag-france","tag-lyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}