lunes, 21 de abril de 2008

Two Cities, two realities






Shangai is the biggest city in China,
“The most exciting city on the planet” and “The world’s most promising place for companies.” That’s how headlines
in The Washington Post and Forbes have described Shanghai.

Shangai is considerent the city of superlatives.This is The largest satellite cities, the biggest
container harbor, the largest airport hub,
the biggest coal-fired power plant ..., This is considered a city where digital technology has been developed in a manner dizzying.

Yet it is a city with big problems such as crime, contamination, poverty, social indifference. Compared with smaller cities population there are major differences but so have things in common. Cuenca in Ecuador has more green areas per inhabitant than Shanghai, the contamination is lower in Cuenca, but the indices of land are under occupation because they have no skyscrapers, only a few buildings of average height. in Shangai has over has more than 4,000 skyscrapers.

Even so, both cities have in common elements such as water, "Both are crossed by rivers.

This is a picture of Cuenca in the night.

1 comentario:

john dijo...

You did a good job comparing these two cities, when I read your article about Shanghai, I did not know much about this city but thanks to your article I found it very interesting and by sure I will be trying to find out more about it, like the article said it’s the city of the future, it will be really nice to go there and see for ourselves how this city runs and how the people are and find out a few more differences and similitude, thanks for your add and keep it up..