{"id":277,"date":"2010-08-20T07:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=277"},"modified":"2010-08-20T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T23:28:01","slug":"the-rise-of-cities-over-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"The rise of cities over countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the blog of Parag Khanna comes an insightful piece about the rise of cities over states as centres of power.\u00a0 This has been an interesting trend to watch\u00a0 &#8211; witness California wanting to sign Kyoto when Bush didn&#8217;t, or Ken Livingston refusing to meet Bush when he visited London (much to the embarrassment of Tony Blair).\u00a0 Well worth a read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paragkhanna.com\/?p=541\">Parag Khanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the blog of Parag Khanna comes an insightful piece about the rise of cities over states as centres of power.\u00a0 This has been an interesting trend to watch\u00a0 &#8211; witness California wanting to sign Kyoto when Bush didn&#8217;t, or Ken Livingston refusing to meet Bush when he visited London (much to the embarrassment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}