{"id":639,"date":"2007-09-02T07:44:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=639"},"modified":"2007-09-02T07:44:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T06:44:27","slug":"global-cities-in-a-changing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Global cities in a changing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to miss the recent exhibition on &#8220;Global Cities&#8221; in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Museum in London, but there&#8217;s a lot of material on the museum&#8217;s web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/globalcities\/default.shtm\">here<\/a>. The exhibition looked at growth and development in 10 major cities around the world. I live in one of these cities &#8211; London &#8211; and have visited six others: Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Shanghai and Tokyo.<br \/>\nOne thing I learned from the site is that London &#8211; which is growing again &#8211;  now has 7.5 million citizens but used to have 8.6 million in 1939. There are now over 20 mega-city regions with more than 10 million people. There are also nearly 450 city regions with over one million residents. Together they house more than one billion people in a relatively small surface of the earth.<br \/>\nI confess that, for all the problems of cities, I love living in a major city and I really enjoy visiting cities around world [notes on 22 cities that I have visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/cities.html\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to miss the recent exhibition on &#8220;Global Cities&#8221; in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Museum in London, but there&#8217;s a lot of material on the museum&#8217;s web site here. The exhibition looked at growth and development in 10 major cities around the world. I live in one of these cities &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}