{"id":4291,"date":"2012-05-25T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2012-05-25T04:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:42:22","slug":"a-neighbourhood-built-and-run-by-ikea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-neighbourhood-built-and-run-by-ikea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Neighbourhood Built And Run By Ikea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_0126_ANeighbourh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doug Saunders described Ikea&#8217;s latest business initiative: a push into urban community planning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The business best known for furniture is building a centrally planned neighbourhood in East London called Strand East.<\/li>\n<li>Strand East will have a sophisticated public transport system and most of the main streets will be free of cars to encourage people to walk. Garages hidden underneath the neighbourhood&#8217;s buildings will hold most of the automobiles.<\/li>\n<li>The neighbourhood will contain 1,200 homes and apartments, and 40% of them will be family sized. This will give it a higher proportion of children than most urban centers.<\/li>\n<li>There will be no Ikea store in the neighbourhood.<\/li>\n<li>Strand East will be fully owned by Ikea and residents will only be able to rent their apartments. Ikea is doing this because they see this as a long-term investment and a way to build upon their cash reserves. However they will maintain a tight grip on &#8220;undesirable activity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ikea is hoping to build a community and will deliver an events calendar to the residents to let them know of things such as farmer&#8217;s markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about how being in the city would feel like being in an Ikea store, how this could help Britain&#8217;s dire housing shortages, the benefits and drawbacks of living in a neighbourhood where everybody is a renter, and how this deals with a problem common in East London, click <a href=\"http:\/\/dougsaunders.net\/2012\/04\/london-ikea-urban-planning-olympics\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dougsaunders.net\/2012\/04\/london-ikea-urban-planning-olympics\/\">Doug Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2012\/04\/16\/links-i-liked-185\/\">Chris Blattman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Saunders described Ikea&#8217;s latest business initiative: a push into urban community planning. The business best known for furniture is building a centrally planned neighbourhood in East London called Strand East. Strand East will have a sophisticated public transport system and most of the main streets will be free of cars to encourage people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052412_0126_ANeighbourh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}