Eco-friendly "Super Trees" in Singapore collect rain water, absorb heat and — like most trees — provide shade.
Devious.
Get everyone using the city's Wi-Fi. Then when the internet is being used to coordinate protests...pull the plug.
Our cities ARE Third World: Tribes of uneducated, morally bankrupt primitives warring for scare resources in economically depressed, lawless, crumbling, hell-holes. These aren’t melting pots, they’re septic tanks.
No apologies, but lots of condolences to anyone here that actually resides in one.
Most of the medical care is very cheap, state of the art with little or no waiting.
Someone forgot to tell them that the government should be involved!
I would rather live in a rural-ish place where things stay pretty much the same, as they do where I live. Also happy to live in a place where you don’t have to collect rainwater to drink, like in Singapore.
Many US airports are run by corrupt municipalities, serviced by union contracts which pay kickbacks to the overseers.
This is a surprise?
The reason being they are homogeneous, meaning of the same or similar nature or kind.They are all virtually one race.
Imagine when the hacker across the street gets control of that.
Last year we flew out of Barcelona and I think Munich and Frankfort and those airports put ANY and ALL of ours to SHAME!!! OMG!! The shopping was like 5th AVenue and you could eat off the floors, they were so clean!! ANd then we flew into La Guardia......PUKE!!
But we don't need more spending.
1. A mere three years ago we passed a $600 billion stimulus package for "shovel ready" jobs. Now we need another stimulus for infrastructure? Where did the other money go?
2. The real estate bubble itself, 2003-2007, was a stimulus in real estate, including property taxes gushing into cities and states, which spent the money on things like Taj Mahal schools.
3. There aren't any cities that I know of in the US which do not have a serious pension underfunding problem, so that any rational city council would need to spend on getting pension funds funded, not buying gigantic metal "trees."
Of course Asian infrastructure is more modern, they have been building the most dazzling parts of it for only the last ten years. The Empire State building is 80 years old now. Most of the infrastructure we need, we already have.
Some politicians here are talking about city-wide wi-fi. Maybe it will come. Not sure it will be a big deal. Urbanists will complain if you can get free Internet access without even bothering to go to a coffee-shop for minimal socialization with other hipsters.
That "heat map" looks hard to read. Maybe not the best technology. Hands-free toilets have also been around for a while in the US as well.
We'll see just how successful automated customs entry and "earthquake and tidal surge-proofed man made islands" in earthquake- and tsunami-prone areas will be. And we'll see how Seoul's river measures up to, say, San Antonio's once the brand-new sheen wears off.
'Green Kites' in Beijing are used to measure the wind, gauge distances, and test for pollution. 'Green Kites' in Beijing are used to measure the wind, gauge distances, and test for pollution.
PLEASE NOTE: These are not the 'Green Kites'
Uh, okay. I guess "Green Kites" are too important to show to foreigners.
bunch of bull of course
China has a maglev that is full of problems and so expensive that most folks don’t use it.
Korea might have WiFi, but maybe instead of doing that, they should pay the US back for the 50 thousand soldiers that died keeping them from being taken over by the commies.
Malaysia’s dream is run by the local (christian or buddhist) chinese colony...give them a few years and the Muslims will throw them out.
And all of these countries spend all their money on fancy cities to show off...go a few miles outside the showy areas, and you will find slums and rural poverty.