{"id":25510,"date":"2025-09-16T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25510\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:06:08","slug":"the-world-is-urbanizing-faster-than-we-are-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25510\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Is Urbanizing Faster Than We Are Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">For as long as all of us alive today can remember, the world has been getting more urban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The human tendency to congregate and settle in clusters began more than 6,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, where the discovery of a \u201cfertile crescent\u201d of land presented a viable alternative to the nomadic way of life. As humans seized the economic and social benefits of proximity, the trend toward urbanization has accelerated, more or less, ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For as long as all of us alive today can remember, the world has been getting more urban.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[72,4800,21599,2885,246,21597,847,61,60,150,21598,7891,21600,18479,82,6826,5766],"class_list":["post-25510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-faster","tag-global-warming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jobs","tag-lagos","tag-north-america","tag-perspective","tag-population-growth","tag-science","tag-urbanization","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}