{"id":6902,"date":"2016-04-29T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:44:10","slug":"how-hyperconnected-cities-are-taking-over-the-world-according-to-parag-khanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6902","title":{"rendered":"How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World, According to Parag Khanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/housing\/2016\/04\/cities-drive-the-new-world-order-parag-khanna-connectography-maps\/480165\/\">Tanva Misra<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the medieval period, empires battled and colluded with each other in the quest for land. The resulting system, in which nations became the main actors on the global stage, is perhaps the one most of us know best. But it\u2019s changing.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;We\u2019re now moving toward a new era where insular, political boundaries are no longer as relevant. More and more people are identifying as \u201cglobal citizens,\u201d and that\u2019s because we\u2019re all more connected than we\u2019ve ever been before. As a result, a \u201csystems change\u201d is taking place in the world today in which cities\u2014not nations\u2014are the key global players, argues Parag Khanna in his new book, Connectography: Mapping the Future of the Global Civilization. In it, Khanna, who is a global strategist and world traveler, writes:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanva Misra: In the medieval period, empires battled and colluded with each other in the quest for land. The resulting system, in which nations became the main actors on the global stage, is perhaps the one most of us know best. But it\u2019s changing.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019re now moving toward a new era where insular, political boundaries are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6903,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions\/6903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}