{"id":10756,"date":"2019-11-05T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/bulging-at-the-seams-auckland-a-super-city-struggling-with-its-own-success"},"modified":"2019-11-05T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:00:51","slug":"bulging-at-the-seams-auckland-a-super-city-struggling-with-its-own-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10756","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bulging at the seams&#8217;: Auckland, a super city struggling with its own success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government dreamed of a metropolis that is a beacon to all but the pace of change has left some behind and others disillusioned<\/p>\n<p>T\u0101maki Makaurau, the M\u0101ori name for Auckland which can be translated as \u201cthe place desired by many\u201d, is living up to its billing. The city\u2019s population has swelled rapidly to 1.7 million and is estimated to be adding 40,000 people a year. By 2048 it could host nearly half of New Zealand\u2019s current population.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s only a couple of thousand people lived in the central city. Now some 57,000 people call it home, a figure that was not expected to be reached until 2032.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/05\/bulging-at-the-seams-auckland-a-super-city-struggling-with-its-own-success\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government dreamed of a metropolis that is a beacon to all but the pace of change has left some behind and others disillusionedT\u0101maki Makaurau, the M\u0101ori name for Auckland which can be translated as \u201cthe place desired by many\u201d, is living up to its &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,858,895,697,897,56,706,766,334,896,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-homelessness","category-housing","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-population","category-rail-transport","category-road-transport","category-urbanisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10757,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}