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To: Moominoid who wrote (33133)	4/14/2008 8:08:23 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218329

What first impressed me were the modernity and scale. Train stations that made Sydney International Airport look like a rural hub and a transport system that rendered the architects of Sydney’s system seem woefully under-qualified. Bullet trains travelled at 400km/hr, the ports - filled with containers arriving and leaving - looked like cities from the air and spread out from the water’s edge like the tentacles of urban sprawl. I travelled an hour along an eight lane freeway (eight lanes in each direction!) and saw nothing but high rise apartments and office towers. I realised I was witnessing the industrialisation of a country and the planning of cities all at the same time. John’s Batman’s journal entry on 8 June, 1835; “this will be the place for a village” was followed in 1841 by a formal incorporation of the town of Melbourne, the reservation of land for public parks and Robert Hoddle laid out the grid upon which Melbourne was built. What is going on today in China is no different. It’s just the scale and the pace that varies from what people must have witnessed in Melbourne in the mid 1800’s. Alleluia..... I wasn't just seeing things...