{"id":630183,"date":"2019-09-10T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630183"},"modified":"2019-09-10T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:00:01","slug":"urban-growth-heat-islands-humidity-climate-change-costs-multiply-in-tropical-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630183","title":{"rendered":"Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: Costs multiply in tropical cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 60% of the planet&#8217;s expected urban area by 2030 is yet to be built. This forecast highlights how rapidly the world&#8217;s people are becoming urban. Cities now occupy about 2% of the world&#8217;s land area, but are home to about 55% of the world&#8217;s people and generate more than 70% of global GDP, plus the associated greenhouse gas emissions.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-09-urban-growth-islands-humidity-climate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: Costs multiply in tropical cities<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 60% of the planet&#8217;s expected urban area by 2030 is yet to be built. This forecast highlights how rapidly the world&#8217;s people are becoming urban. Cities now occupy about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}