{"id":7290,"date":"2016-10-12T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T17:07:20","slug":"minnpost-reveals-augsburg-colleges-urban-arboretum-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/12\/minnpost-reveals-augsburg-colleges-urban-arboretum-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"MinnPost unveils Augsburg College&#8217;s urban arboretum plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3918 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"MinnPost - logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost-115x115.jpeg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/MinnPost.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;You\u2019d never expect to find a leafy arboretum in a high-density, high-diversity, high-traffic neighborhood,&#8221; says\u00a0MinnPost writer <strong>Jay Walljasper<\/strong>. &#8220;But that\u2019s exactly what Augsburg College is planning for its unmistakably urban campus in the heart of Minneapolis, which borders Fairview Riverside Medical complex, the high-rise Riverside Plaza towers, two freeways, two light rail lines, busy shopping districts on Franklin Avenue and Cedar Avenues, plus one of the largest Somali communities outside of Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walljasper, a senior fellow for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sabo\/\">Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship<\/a>,\u00a0described Augsburg&#8217;s ambitious plan to transform its campus into a living laboratory in a recent article on\u00a0the history of the urban college, its intent to plant native Minnesota species, and\u00a0its\u00a0brainstorming and decision-making processes for the landscape design project.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/environment\/2016\/10\/augsburg-college-looks-transform-its-campus-urban-arboretum\">&#8220;Augsburg College looks to transform its campus into an urban arboretum&#8221;<\/a> on the MinnPost site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You\u2019d never expect to find a leafy arboretum in a high-density, high-diversity, high-traffic neighborhood,&#8221; says\u00a0MinnPost writer Jay Walljasper. &#8220;But that\u2019s exactly what Augsburg College is planning for its unmistakably urban campus in the heart of Minneapolis, which borders Fairview Riverside Medical complex, the high-rise Riverside Plaza towers, two freeways, two light rail lines, busy shopping &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,4,6,7,8],"tags":[481,3647,1967,3455,3895],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty","category-donors","category-in-the-news","category-staff","category-students","tag-campus","tag-jay-walljasper","tag-minnpost","tag-sabo-center-for-democracy-and-citizenship","tag-urban-arboretum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}