{"id":72,"date":"2009-06-13T06:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T14:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/returning-cities-to-nature-wow\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T06:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T14:50:34","slug":"returning-cities-to-nature-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/returning-cities-to-nature-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"RETURNING CITIES TO NATURE? WOW."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this headline today on the web from the UK&#8217;s Telegraph&#8230;SHRINKING cities and returning them to Nature? I must be dreaming&#8230;.here is a short excerpt and the link at the bottom (It appears you need to cut and paste the address into the URL bar&#8230;for some reason these blog entries don&#8217;t create a hot link&#8230;JS<\/p>\n<p>US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive<br \/>\nBy Tom Leonard in Flint, Michigan <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic &#8220;shrink to survive&#8221; proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.<br \/>\nThe government is looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.<br \/>\nLocal politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/financialcrisis\/5516536\/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this headline today on the web from the UK&#8217;s Telegraph&#8230;SHRINKING cities and returning them to Nature? I must be dreaming&#8230;.here is a short excerpt and the link at the bottom (It appears you need to cut and paste the address into the URL bar&#8230;for some reason these blog entries don&#8217;t create a hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}