{"id":8296,"date":"2012-04-12T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:27","slug":"urban-planet-jungles-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/12\/urban-planet-jungles-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans&#8217; Lower Ninth Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=28148\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jungleland\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jungleland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The population of New Orleans&#8217; Lower Ninth Ward has decreased by 85% since 2000. Without owners to tend the lots and given the region&#8217;s fertile soil, much of the neighbourhood has been reclaimed by nature. Nathaniel Rich at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/25\/magazine\/the-lower-ninth-ward-new-orleans.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0writes, &#8220;trees that did not exist before [Hurricane Katrina] are now 30 feet high.&#8221; Despite the city&#8217;s efforts to maintain the area, the neighbourhood has become a dumping ground for pets, garbage and more.<\/p>\n<div><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/25\/magazine\/the-lower-ninth-ward-new-orleans.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><\/em><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. The population of New Orleans&#8217; Lower Ninth Ward has decreased by 85% since 2000. Without owners to tend the lots and<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/12\/urban-planet-jungles-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans&#8217; Lower Ninth Ward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[882,4662,2052,1266,1731,550],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-facebook","tag-nathaniel-rich","tag-new-orleans","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans&#039; Lower Ninth Ward  - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/12\/urban-planet-jungles-in-new-orleans-lower-ninth-ward\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans&#039; Lower Ninth Ward  - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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