{"id":81438,"date":"2018-08-07T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-many-people-make-a-good-city-its-not-the-size-that-matters-but-how-you-use-it"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:08:33","slug":"how-many-people-make-a-good-city-its-not-the-size-that-matters-but-how-you-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-many-people-make-a-good-city-its-not-the-size-that-matters-but-how-you-use-it","title":{"rendered":"How many people make a good city? It\u2019s not the size that matters, but how you use it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-many-people-make-a-good-city-its-not-the-size-that-matters-but-how-you-use-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s population clock is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/0\/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument\">according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics<\/a>, steadily ticking away at an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 23 seconds. It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/0\/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument\">set to tick over<\/a> to 25 million around 11pm tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Many are debating what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/2018\/08\/06\/15\/11\/australia-25-million-population-milestone-urban-planning-growing-pains\">ideal population<\/a> is for a country like Australia. But because most of this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/population\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">population<\/a> growth is concentrated in our big cities, perhaps we should be thinking less about that and more about the ideal <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/size\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">size<\/a> of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/city\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">city<\/a>. Historically, there have been many theories on what this would be.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-people-good-city-size.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-people-good-city-size.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s population clock is, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, steadily ticking away at an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 23 seconds. It\u2019s set to tick over to 25 million around 11pm tonight. Many are debating what the ideal population is for a country like Australia. But because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81558,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438\/revisions\/81558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}