{"id":3427,"date":"2018-11-01T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T12:40:50","slug":"town-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Town squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/nov\/01\/stockholm-apple-town-square-park-kings-garden-kungstradgarden\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I heard about it, I thought it must be impossible. Stockholmers won\u2019t let them build a big store in Kungstr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden. City parks are a little bit holy in Stockholm. You can\u2019t privatise a park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the retail strategy Apple announced last year suggests that it was no misjudgment: blurring the boundaries between public and private space is exactly what the company is trying to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, we actually don\u2019t call them stores anymore,\u201d Angela Ahrendts, Apple\u2019s senior vice-president of retail, said in November last year, a sentiment reiterated at Apple\u2019s new product event on Tuesday. \u201cWe call them town squares, because they\u2019re gathering places where everyone is welcome.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, we actually don\u2019t call them stores anymore. We call them town squares\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: \u201cWhen I heard about it, I thought it must be impossible. Stockholmers won\u2019t let them build a big store in Kungstr\u00e4dg\u00e5rden. City parks are a little bit holy in Stockholm. You can\u2019t privatise a park.\u201d But the retail strategy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=3427\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}