{"id":417,"date":"2016-04-08T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/lozren28\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-04-11T00:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T07:56:47","slug":"city-office-of-development-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/city-office-of-development-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"City Office of Development Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trips taken thus far has been to Berlin&#8217;s City Office of Development. In this quiet building the future of Berlin is discussed and mapped out on a carefully crafted model of the city, in stark, modern miniature. Using these models both city officials and citizens of Berlin map out the future of the city. Berlin prides itself on being a balance of new and old, having many green spaces and city gardens for individual residences, and staying horizontal rather than vertical, and are staunchly opposed to setting up towering skyscrapers and getting rid of their green areas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/lozren28\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160406_101450-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160406_101450\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/lozren28\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160406_101445-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160406_101445\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I can understand their outrage over recent city development plans-a tendency to build up or take away Public greens to make room for more housing-I&#8217;m not sure what they can expect. Berlin is only getting bigger, and at the rate it&#8217;s going, it&#8217;s natural for its final stages to end up looking similar to New York. The plan to make Berlin grow and still possess green is optimistic, and sadly naive. Seeing the history of Berlin in 3-D and in miniature was \u00a0awe-inspiring, and really gave me a sense of just how big Berlin is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trips taken thus far has been to Berlin&rsquo;s City Office of Development. In this quiet building the future of Berlin is discussed and mapped out on a carefully crafted model of the city, in stark, modern miniature. Using these models both city officials and citizens of Berlin map out the future of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/lozren28\/city-office-of-development-trip\/\">Continue reading <span>&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ofbloodandbeauty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}