{"id":1204,"date":"2012-12-10T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/san-francisco-can-become-a-world-capital-first-it\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:00:58","slug":"san-francisco-can-become-a-world-capital-first-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/san-francisco-can-become-a-world-capital-first-it\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco can become a world capital. First it needs to get over itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In particular, for San Francisco, adopting that reality means one thing above all: It needs to build more buildings. Build taller buildings, sites that house many more people and businesses than they do now. If it accepts its fate as large metropolis, San Francisco could become the next New York, Hong Kong, or Paris \u2014 a city that\u2019s dense with people and businesses, and all of the urban services, cultural values and environmental virtues that density accommodates.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s fundamental problem is that it\u2019s a big city that likes to think of itself as a small one. The city proper is about 46 square miles in area. That\u2019s 40 percent larger than Manhattan. But even with recent growth, there are only 812,000 people in San Francisco, which is half as many as Manhattan. San Francisco\u2019s population density is about 17,000 people per square mile. Manhattan and Paris have more than 60,000 people per square mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In particular, for San Francisco, adopting that reality means one thing above all: It needs to build more buildings. Build taller buildings, sites that house many more people and businesses than they do now. If it accepts its fate as large metropolis, San Francisco could become the next New York, Hong Kong, or Paris \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}