{"id":156,"date":"2013-08-15T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2013-08-15T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:03:04","slug":"just-say-no-to-forced-regionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2013\/08\/15\/just-say-no-to-forced-regionalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say NO to Forced Regionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN said that urbanisation is now \u201cunstoppable\u201d.\u00a0 Anna Tibaijuka, outgoing director of UN-Habitat, said: <em>\u201cJust over half the world now lives in cities but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers. By then, only 14% of people in rich countries will live outside cities, and 33% in poor countries.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The UN thinks regionalism is unstoppable but we have other  ideas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanhealthupdates.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/30\/worlds-biggest-cities-merging-into-mega-regions\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN said that urbanisation is now \u201cunstoppable\u201d.\u00a0 Anna Tibaijuka, outgoing director of UN-Habitat, said: \u201cJust over half the world now lives in cities but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers. By then, only 14% of people in rich countries will live outside cities, and 33% in poor countries.\u201d\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}