The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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Yeah? New York is old. Shanghai is all new. So what?
But do they have "Roumanian pastrami" deli sandwiches in Shanghai? Hah!
Wonder why Friedman did not bother contrasting the burbs of NYC with the surrounding labor holding pens of Shanghai. Not useful to the idiot?
Now, if he truly wanted to hold up a legitimate example of a metropolitan area which makes NYC look at least second worldish it would be Tokyo. If he preferred to come up with a chinese candidate, HongKong--in sum-- would at least one up NYC.
Age has nothing to do with it: european cities are older and most are kept up.
I was not impressed by Tokyo: it's a jumble of houses and buildings, with no apparent rhyme or reason. NYC has a cartesian je ne sais quoi to it.
NYC has a cartesian je ne sais quoi to it.
the charm of the predictability of the grid, the soothing knowledge that 43rd street will surely come just after 42nd if you don't change directions?
why did the font shrink on this fucking blog ? There are much funner ways to explore blindness than squinting while blabbering with RWNs.
Yes, I also noted that -- the fonts are shrinking. You can make them bigger by pressing some judiciously chose button, but after a while, they get back to microscopic. Must be a plot.
No one is fond of this font here? Gee, I thought it was just my computer
I got rope. someone get the administrator of this blog.
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