{"id":34586,"date":"2012-11-06T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=34586"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:05","slug":"urban-planet-iskandar-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/06\/urban-planet-iskandar-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Iskandar Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/06\/urban-planet-iskandar-malaysia\/iskandar-malaysia-development-map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34587\" title=\"Iskandar Malaysia development map\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/11\/Iskandar-Malaysia-develop-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/18\/urban-planet-how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths\/feature-urban-planet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs 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>As many cities in Asia confront issues of overcrowding and pollution, developers in Malaysia are planning an eco-city for 3 million people. <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iskandarmalaysia.com.my\/\">Iskandar Malaysia<\/a>, will cover an area the size of Luxembourg and host facilities of Pinewood Studios, Legoland, and Newcastle and Southampton Universities. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/nov\/02\/iskandar-malaysia-green-megacity\">The Guardian)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/nov\/02\/iskandar-malaysia-green-megacity\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><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>. 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs 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. As many cities in Asia confront issues of overcrowding and pollution, developers in Malaysia are planning an eco-city for<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/11\/06\/urban-planet-iskandar-malaysia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Iskandar Malaysia&#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":[21759],"tags":[6581,4657,21401,13607,3010,16774,21400,549,10185,99],"class_list":["post-34586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-asia","tag-facebook","tag-legoland","tag-luxembourg","tag-malaysia","tag-newcastle","tag-pinewood-studios","tag-the-guardian","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: Iskandar Malaysia - Spacing Toronto<\/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\/toronto\/2012\/11\/06\/urban-planet-iskandar-malaysia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Iskandar Malaysia - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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