{"id":2260,"date":"2012-04-16T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T12:02:32","slug":"beijings-future-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2012\/04\/16\/beijings-future-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing&#8217;s future appearance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is one of my favorite cities. I recently visited as part of the Future Forest effort to fight desertification through the planting of trees. I picked up a fascinating booklet at that time that describes plans for extensive new real estate developments. Let us start by looking at traditional Beijing and its narrow alleys known as &#8220;hutong.&#8221; These hutong roads are rapidly disappearing as part of contemporary progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hutong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2261\" title=\"hutong\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hutong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hutong.jpg 450w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hutong-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2262\" title=\"01\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/01-768x1018.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But this copy of China Real Estate Magazine presents a profoundly different vision of what is possible in China, one that is both entrancing and worrisome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2263\" title=\"02\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/02-768x1087.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2264\" title=\"03\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/03-768x1011.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2265\" title=\"04\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/04-768x1036.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2266\" title=\"06\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/06-768x1016.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2267\" title=\"07\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/07-768x1014.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is one of my favorite cities. I recently visited as part of the Future Forest effort to fight desertification through the planting of trees. I picked up a fascinating booklet at that time that describes plans for extensive new real estate developments. Let us start by looking at traditional Beijing and its narrow alleys &#8230; <a title=\"Beijing&#8217;s future appearance?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2012\/04\/16\/beijings-future-appearance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beijing&#8217;s future appearance?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8090,10659529,184,60672653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-culture-2","category-environment","category-today-in-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}