{"id":274200513,"date":"2013-09-09T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274200513"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:48:33","slug":"resurging-cities-resurging-metros-the-impoverished-and-the-metropolitan-revolution-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274200513","title":{"rendered":"Resurging cities, resurging metros, the impoverished and the Metropolitan Revolution (continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This bit caught my eye:]<br \/>\n**********************************************<br \/>\nBy Richard Layman, Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nThis reminds me of my brief experience working for Baltimore County Government a couple years ago.  I thought Baltimore County wasn&#8217;t striving&#8211;they are mostly content comparing themselves to Baltimore City, which has been on a downward spiral for 50+ years, and thereby judging as wildly successful most any of the County&#8217;s economic initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>But if local elites instead chose to reference and benchmark the County against the most successful counties in the Baltimore-Washington region and the US more generally, it would be found wanting.  Going forward, to be successful on a national basis, Baltimore County and many other communities need to reset their expectations, goals, and standards for achievement.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/resurging-cities-resurging-metros.html\">https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/resurging-cities-resurging-metros.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: This bit caught my eye:] ********************************************** By Richard Layman, Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space &#8230; This reminds me of my brief experience working for Baltimore County Government a couple years ago. I thought Baltimore County wasn&#8217;t striving&#8211;they are mostly content comparing themselves to Baltimore City, which has been on a downward spiral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274200513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Resurging cities, resurging metros, the impoverished and the Metropolitan Revolution (continued)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274200513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274200513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274200513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274200513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274200513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274200513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274200513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}