{"id":3040,"date":"2014-04-01T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2015-09-26T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:27:22","slug":"greater-london-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2014\/greater-london-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater London National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web.jpg\" alt=\"Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web\" width=\"1239\" height=\"959\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web.jpg 1239w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Map-of-the-Greater-London-National-Park-web-1024x792.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1239px) 100vw, 1239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A website calling for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greaterlondonnationalpark.org.uk\/\">Greater London National Park<\/a> launched today (1 April) although it&#8217;s keen to point out that it&#8217;s not actually an April Fool, but a (half-)serious idea &#8211; although it is just a Notional Park for now. Why should the UK&#8217;s national parks be exclusively in rural areas? The website points out the large number of parks in London (over 2000) and also that it is a city mainly of houses and gardens than high-rise flats, as such the &#8220;greenspace&#8221; of private gardens forms a not insubstantial portion of the capital&#8217;s land use. Taking water, parks and gardens together, the natural environment accounts for more than half the total land area in London. To drive the point home, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greaterlondonnationalpark.org.uk\/visit\/maps\/\">this map<\/a>, we like how it uses a rather beguiling series of shades of green to illustrate just how rural the metropolis actually is.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, the website also contains a map by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ox.ac.uk\/staff\/bhennig.html\">Ben Hennig<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/\">WorldMapper<\/a> (and soon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmapper.org.uk\/\">LondonMapper<\/a>) fame, showing the distribution of hedgehogs in London, with the boroughs distorted to show their hedgehog population rather than their geographical area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hedgehog-v3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hedgehog-v3.jpg\" alt=\"Hedgehog-v3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"849\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hedgehog-v3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hedgehog-v3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Hedgehog-v3-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks to Daniel Raven-Ellison for sending us the details!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website calling for a Greater London National Park launched today (1 April) although it&#8217;s keen to point out that it&#8217;s not actually an April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214,461,462,464,465,463],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","tag-green","tag-greenspace","tag-national-park","tag-natural","tag-nature","tag-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}