  I continue to ponder the future of "Urban Earth". Shanghai has been a huge wakeup call... I wonder if it is making any real advancments in urbanization, or just turning into a monster of a city. Only time will tell if indeed Shanghai will Bloom or wilt away in its own waste. On one of the largest digitial screens i have ever seen easily viewed from the bund at night, there flashes the slogen of the reborn city, "A better city for a better tommarow", I guess sofar this hasent quite come to be, life is very hard for the average Shanghainese in my eyes. Does man inharently create waste? Is pollution a must in urban centers? My lifes work lays in the research and creation of mans future citys. I know this now more than ever. 
