{"id":518,"date":"2009-04-26T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/2009\/04\/city-as-cancer\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T01:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T06:41:34","slug":"city-as-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/2009\/04\/city-as-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"City as Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lasvegas.gif\" alt=\"lasvegas\" class=\"wp-image-517\" title=\"lasvegas\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lasvegas.gif 700w, https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lasvegas-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lasvegas-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=37228\">25 Years of Growth in Las Vegas<\/a> from NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at this animation of growth (5 year intervals since 1984) it isn&#8217;t hard to imagine a city as a type of cancer on the Earth. It grows, consumes, pollutes, and creates waste. I really want to expand on this idea but I have a few papers I&#8217;m supposed to writing right now so I&#8217;ll come back to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out Lake Mead to the right. Note how much it drops as the city grows. That&#8217;s pretty shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n25 Years of Growth in Las Vegas from NASA. Looking at this&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/2009\/04\/city-as-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;City as Cancer&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1,7],"tags":[396,359,397,398,395],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-cities","category-maps","tag-animation","tag-las-vegas","tag-nasa","tag-satellite-image","tag-urban-growth","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanshnookenraggen.com\/_index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}