{"id":19294,"date":"2019-12-31T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2019-12-30T02:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T02:17:41","slug":"sneakers-on-power-lines-fake-houses-trains-photos-gentrification-and-architecture-the-most-popular-posts-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/sneakers-on-power-lines-fake-houses-trains-photos-gentrification-and-architecture-the-most-popular-posts-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoes on power lines, fake houses, trains, photos, gentrification and architecture – the most popular posts in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sneakers<\/p>\n

With the year nearly over, here’s a listing of the fifteen most popular posts on this blog in 2019, with the mystery of sneakers dangling on the power lines of New York<\/a> remaining the most read. Here’s the other fourteen most popular posts:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

2. The fake houses at 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London W2<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Festival<\/p>\n

3. Festival security, drug searches and your safety \u2013 an insider\u2019s guide<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

4. The rarely spinning turbines of the Strata Tower, south London<\/a><\/p>\n

\"My<\/p>\n

5. Building and buying an extra small, super-portable drum kit for gigging drummers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

6. In photos: A trip on the new GWR Intercity Express trains \u2013 and my verdict<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Desolate<\/p>\n

7. Abandoned and desolate Pullman coaches, Marazion, Cornwall<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Record<\/p>\n

8. Concorde at the Intrepid Museum, NYC<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

9. The A \u2013 Z of Gentrification \u2013 sure-fire signs that your neighbourhood is upwardly mobile<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Margate<\/p>\n

10. Over fifty Margate photos, including beach views, Dreamland, Turner Gallery, Old Town and more<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Booksellers<\/p>\n

11. Booksellers Row at Cecil Court \u2013 a Victorian gem in central London<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

12. The curious Pyramidal tomb of William Mackenzie in Liverpool<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

13. The Art Deco splendour of the stunning Chrysler Building, New York City<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

14. The disused Thameslink platforms at Barbican station, London<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

15. A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles\u2019 Babel at the Tate Modern, London<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who visited this site in 2019 – and hope to see you back in 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the year nearly over, here’s a listing of the fifteen most popular posts on this blog in 2019, with the mystery of sneakers dangling on the power lines of … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,56,456,193],"tags":[199,34,760,450,60,10,18,1195,1200,2226,231],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-new-york","category-news","category-places","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-fake-houses","tag-gentrification","tag-history","tag-london","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-railways","tag-sneakers-on-power-lines","tag-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hanging-sneakers-new-york-03.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-51c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19300,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions\/19300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}