{"id":39368,"date":"2013-08-03T22:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jonathan_oconnell_talks_to_leigh_gallagher_about_her_book_the_end_of_the_su\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:25:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:25:56","slug":"jonathan_oconnell_talks_to_leigh_gallagher_about_her_book_the_end_of_the_su","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39368","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan O\u2019Connell talks to Leigh Gallagher about her book \u201cThe End of the Suburbs\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Connell: Could you start by telling us why you think the suburbs are in decline?<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher: The suburbs were a great idea that worked really well for a long time, but they overshot their mandate. We supersized everything in a way that led many people to live far away from where they needed to be and far away from their neighbors, and that has far-reaching implications, no pun intended. People have turned away from that kind of living. Add in the demographic forces that are reshaping our whole population, and the result is a significant shift. Census data shows that outward growth is slowing and inward growth is speeding up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/are-the-suburbs-dying-or-just-evolving\/2013\/08\/02\/13778fb6-facd-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?hpid=z8\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Connell: Could you start by telling us why you think the suburbs are in decline? Gallagher: The suburbs were a great idea that worked really well for a long time, but they overshot their mandate. We supersized everything in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39368\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,103,209,92,101,149,133,98,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-children","category-economy","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}