{"id":12516,"date":"2014-11-05T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:38","slug":"futuristic-chinese-megastructure-would-include-soaring-towers-massive-skyways-urban-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/futuristic-chinese-megastructure-would-include-soaring-towers-massive-skyways-urban-farms","title":{"rendered":"Futuristic Chinese Megastructure Would Include Soaring Towers, Massive Skyways, Urban Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Many of the world\u2019s cities are hundreds, even thousands of years old. They evolved from the bottom up as populations changed and demanded change. A new road here, new building there. The result is striking and wild\u2014a kind of physical history.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you could start New York or London from scratch?<\/p>\n<p>To see skylines of the future\u2014look east. Perhaps nowhere is urban growth happening more rapidly than in China. Home to a burgeoning list of megacities (population over 10 million), the country is wide open to ambitious and imaginative urban design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/23\/futuristic-chinese-megastructure-would-include-soaring-towers-massive-skyways-urban-farms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub Many of the world\u2019s cities are hundreds, even thousands of years old. They evolved from the bottom up as populations changed and demanded change. A new road here, new building there. The result is striking and wild\u2014a kind of physical history. But what if you could start New [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46789,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/46789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}