{"id":3494,"date":"2010-10-26T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2010-10-26T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:17:18","slug":"the-city-of-new-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/the-city-of-new-providence","title":{"rendered":"The City of New Providence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urbanization\u00a0 of New Providence Island has engendered many benefits as well as significant  challenges.\u00a0 These challenges include ongoing  infrastructural needs in the areas of housing, ground transportation  networks, public services and facilities, and reliable utilities, among  others.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a complex of sociological challenges including increased  crime and violence, social alienation by some and the changing nature of  social networks such as neighbourhoods.\u00a0 There are also a complex of sociological challenges  including increased crime and violence, social alienation by some and  the changing nature of social networks such as neighbourhoods.\u00a0 The  environmental and health challenges related to urbanization are also  significant.<\/p>\n<p>To face the challenges of urban development, design and renewal, we have to think and plan in terms of an extended city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahama Pundit&#8217;s Simon makes a case for a transition from the City of Nassau to the City of New Providence, saying it is &#8220;a geographical reality and an idea that is coming of age.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}