{"id":204,"date":"2018-02-12T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/2018\/02\/12\/204\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:30:00","slug":"204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/2018\/02\/12\/204\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content e-content\">Toronto&#8217;s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat writes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/economy\/torontos-unaffordable-why-cant-halifax-or-saskatoon-take-advantage\/\">mid-sized cities hold the key to economic growth and quality of life in Canada, and they\u2019ve taken too long to realize it<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many municipalities talk the talk when it comes to seeking sustainable growth, yet create market distortions through flawed policy that continues to facilitate sprawl. Almost every mid-sized Canadian city has recognized in policy documents the importance of a compact, mixed-use, liveable urban centre to its identity, attractiveness, population growth and economic development. And yet our latest census data reveals car-oriented suburban growth is unfettered in mid-sized Canadian cities. The vast majority of growth\u201480 per cent\u2014is suburban-auto oriented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hoo boy does that resonate.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary p-summary\">Toronto&#8217;s former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat writes &#8220;mid-sized cities hold the key to economic growth and quality of life in Canada, and they\u2019ve taken too long to realize it&#8220;: &#8220;Many municipalities talk the talk when it comes to seeking sustainable growth, yet create market distortions through flawed policy that continues to facilitate sprawl. Almost every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/2018\/02\/12\/204\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[44,45,48,47,46,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","6":"category-links","7":"tag-canada","8":"tag-cities","9":"tag-mid-sized-cities","10":"tag-place","11":"tag-planning","12":"tag-quality-of-life","13":"post_format-post-format-aside","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9DtPM-204","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewkurjata.ca\/micro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}