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TABLE of CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

01

DAY 1 : OUR CURRENT CITY

05

DAY 2 : NEW CITY PERSPECTIVE

19

DAY 3 : FUTURE SKY CITY

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COLOPHON

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SKY CITY?

INTRODUCTION

SKY? SKY? FOR WHAT? BUILDING

ARCHITECTES

THIS BOOK WILL INTRODUCE A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF OUR CURRENT URBAN PLANNING. CITY CONSTURCTURE


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CAN WE LIVE IN SKY? CURRENTLY, SOME COUNTRIES ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE LARGE AMOUNT POPULATION AND THE LACK OF THE LAND SPACE. CITY PLANNERS ARE KEEP EXPANDING THE CITY “HORIZONTAL”. BASED ON THIS SITUATION, SOME ARCHIETECTES ARGUE THAT WHY WE CAN’T BUILD OUR CITY VERITICAL. BY THAT WAY WE CAN SHARE MORE SKY SPACE, NOT LAND SPACE. THAT’S THE MAIN CONCEPT OF THIS BOOK, THIS CONCERT, AND OUR FUTURE LIFE.


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DAY 1

BEIJING, CHINA

OUR CURRENT CITY

SAN FRANCISCO, USA BUILDING

ARCHITECTES

Our currently city landscape is horizontal. City planners are keep extending the city horizontally. CITY CONSTURCTURE


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OUR CITY LANDSCAPE This take on the decaying quality of life in major U.S. cities makes it all so simple - overpopulation is the root cause, because the carrying capacity is being exceeded. Please look at a table of the world’s countries listing population density versus quality of life defined by UN criteria: No correlation. For example, the Netherlands has more than ten times as many people per square kilometer than the U.S. yet the Netherlands has a higher quality of life, less pollution and far less poverty. Our carrying capacity is determined by an unsustainable mode of production and consumption, consumerism run amok, under the protective watch of the greatest machinery of mass murder the world has ever known, itself a colossal waste of energy and resources. Unless this American way of living is changed radically, we and the rest of the world will all face global warming ecocatastrophe by 2050 if not sooner. Blaming our unsustainable way of life on too many people is an explanation so user friendly to the ruling elites of global corporate capitalism especially our own military industrial complex. This born-again Mathusianism is simply a service to antiimmigrant racism and to a revival of fascist eugenics, offering no solutions to creating more livable U.S. cities.


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Our currently city landscape is horizontal. City planners are keep extending the city horizontally.


PAGE 09 As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support. Today, however, China faces the opposite problem: as a result of the success of its “one-child” policy, the country faces the prospect of having too few children to support a rapidly aging population Agnit aut quid moluptatur,

BEIJING CHINA

consequam China has made vast improvements in health over the past five decades, with life expectancy at birth increasing by two-thirds from 40.8 to 71.5 between 1955 and 2005.2 The country already has about 102 million elderly, or over one-fifth of the world’s elderly population.3 And the percentage of

CURRENT SITUATION

elderly in China is projected to triple from 8 percent to 24 percent between 2006 and 2050, to a total number of 322 million.

BEIJING, CHINA

OVER POPULATION

The dramatic fertility decline and improved longevity over the past two decades are causing China’s population to age at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of chronic disease and disability in the population. Meeting the health and long-term care needs of this growing elderly population will result in soaring health care costs—and with a shrinking working-age population to help pay the bill. Indeed, the challenge of paying for health care in China is immense, especially since the Chinese health care system has already experienced large increases in overall costs and greater private expenditure since shifting to a market-oriented system in the early 1980s. But while China is not prepared to meet the health needs of its growing elderly population, its government has recognized these challenges and is starting to develop a comprehensive response. As a first step, Chinese health officials have implemented various chronic-disease prevention programs at the national level. They are also starting to set up long-term care delivery systems for the elderly. But while China’s economy continues to grow rapidly, whether it will be able to allocate enough income to meet these rising health care costs remains as a major concern.


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demographic trends endanger the chinese health care system

BEIJING CHINA The rate of increase in health care costs has already exceeded the growth of the national economy and individual earnings. Long-term care for the elderly, traditionally provided at home in China by adult children (especially by daughters-in-law), will become increasingly less feasible in coming decades when parents of the first generation of the one-child policy start reaching old age and retiring. These singletons will face the need to care for two parents and often four grandparents without siblings with whom to share the responsibility, a problem sometimes referred to in China as the “4-2-1 problem.” And the macro-level outlook for health care spending is no better. While the number of elderly in the population who require care is growing, the size of the working-age population (who pay much of the health care costs) is shrinking. The elderly-support ratio—the working-age adult (ages 15 to 64) per number of elderly (age 65 and above)—is projected to decline drastically, from 9 persons to 2.5 persons by 2050. This demographic shift is troublesome for a health care system that already faces a number of challenges—most important of which is the rapid increase in overall costs and in private health care spending. The health care system in China—once regarded as exemplary for low-income agrarian societies—has degenerated considerably in access since the early 1980s at the same time as its costs have soared. A system that relied heavily on public subsidies and provided egalitarian access to basic health care has shifted to a market-oriented system that relies heavily on private funding and is characterized by excessive usage fees.

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Now, rising out-of-pocket costs prevent many Chinese from seeking early care and have resulted in wide disparities in health care access, particularly between urban and rural areas. These trends are of particular concern to the elderly, who likely have higher health care needs yet less means to afford that care, and who also make up larger proportion of the rural population than the younger population.


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The Chinese government has only recently acknowledged the consequences of rapid population aging and has started to address them in various policies and programs: Strategies for long-term care. Though public funding for the long-term care of the elderly in China is still limited, the Chinese government has started to allocate more funding in this area. At the same time, new opportunities for entrepreneurship in the health service industry have opened — a result of China’s social-welfare reform in the 1990s, which decentralized government-funded welfare institutions and significantly reduced their government financing. Today, an increasing number of private elder homes as well as the country ’s former government-sponsored elder homes

public health responses to population aging

(which used to be reserved exclusively for elderly with no children and no other means of support) are providing an alternative to familial elder care. However, these facilities are still small in number, of varying standards, and are often too expensive for many elderly and their families. Community-based long-term care services for the elderly in China—both informal and local government-supported—have also begun to emerge, especially in urban areas. These efforts are serving various needs of the elderly and their family caregivers, including daily care, home maintenance, and information and referral services. The lack of a trained workforce in caregiving to elderly is an important issue facing China’s long-term care delivery system. Some local government agencies (such as the labor union and the department of health) are training laid-off workers to work in long-term care—but these training programs are short and cover only limited basic caregiving skills. Some observers are calling for more knowledge-based training programs that offer a broader range of caregiving skills. Besides long-term care, the government has plans to develop geriatric medical training at an undergraduate level and to establish more geriatric units to increase the country ’s capacity to address the specific health care needs of the elderly. Strategies for primary and secondary prevention. China’s ministry of health has also been addressing chronic disease prevention and control. In 2002, for instance, it established the National Center for Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention to oversee efforts at the national level; the same year, it unveiled the Disease Surveillance Points System, a national resource for chronic disease surveillance.

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The ministry is also working to develop the first long-term (from 2005 to 2015) comprehensive national plan for chronic disease control and prevention in cooperation with relevant sectors and supported by the World Health Organization ( WHO). Reducing adult male smoking, hypertension, overweight and obesity, and building capacity for chronic disease control are among the plan’s highest priorities. Programs

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increased. These efforts include a community-based intervention on management of hypertension and diabetes conducted in three cities (Beijing, Shanghai, and Changsha) between 1991 and 2000; a national cancer control plan, the Program of Cancer Prevention and Control in China; and ratification of the WHO Framework Convention of Tobacco Control. Furthermore, to prevent chronic disease at early ages, projects to improve nutrition and health status have been undertaken. These projects are focused mainly on primary schools and have achieved encouraging reductions ( by as much as 30 percent in one year in one example) in the prevalence of childhood obesity.

ARCHITECTES

CITY CONSTURCTURE

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ARCHITECTES

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CITY CONSTURCTURE

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4-2-1 PROBLEM

The challenges of population aging are daunting for any country, but especially so for China. Unlike developed countries where economic development preceded population aging, China faces the massive demands of population aging at one of the fastest rates ever and while its economy is still not fully developed—hence, without the funds necessary to address the demands. China’s dilemma is how to allocate resources among competing needs of various sectors while still continuing its economic growth. In addition to the 4-2-1 problem, trends in both the female labor-force participation and the sex ratio of young Chinese may well create additional issues for a society which traditionally has left elder care to its women, especially daughters-inlaw. The labor-force participation among young Chinese women is very high and could affect the informal provision of long-term care in the coming decades. The sex ratio at birth for the young cohorts born after China’s one-child policy is highly skewed toward boys, potentially creating a future deficit of daughters-in-law as elder caregivers.


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OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE

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As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support. Today, however, China faces the opposite problem: as a result of the success of its “one-child” policy, the country faces the prospect of having too few children to support a rapidly aging

moluptatur, consequam China has made vast improvements in health over the past five decades, with life expectancy at birth increasing by two-thirds from 40.8 to 71.5 between 1955 and 2005.2 The country already has about 102 million elderly, or over one-fifth of the world’s elderly population.3 And the percentage of elderly in China is projected to triple from 8 percent to 24 percent between 2006 and 2050, to a total number of 322 million.

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OUR CURRENT CITY BLUEPRINT

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VERTICAL ?

DAY 2

NEW CITY PERSPECTIVE

HORIZONTAL?

ARCHITECTES

HOW CAN WE EXPAND OUR CITY VERTICAL? SHARE MORE SKY SPACE? BUILDING

CITY CONSTURCTURE


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CITY

NEW CITY PERSPECTIVE While the trend of population aging is inevitable and can even be accelerated by further declines in mortality and fertility, stemming the epidemic of chronic disease is one promising way to reduce the overall impact of aging on China’s social and economic development. Investing in a formal long-term care system to complement the informal care currently provided primarily by family members could also encourage their continued participation in the provision of care. Addressing these elder care challenges will be crucial to China’s continued social and economic development and stability.


PAGE 23

While the trend of population aging is inevitable and can even be accelerated by further declines in mortality and fertility, stemming the epidemic of chronic disease is one promising way to reduce the overall impact of aging on China’s social and economic development. Investing in a formal long-term care system to complement the informal care currently provided primarily by family members could also encourage their continued participation in the provision of care. Addressing these elder care challenges will be crucial to China’s continued social and economic development and stability.

As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support. Today, however, China faces the opposite problem: as a result of the success of its “one-child” policy, the country faces the prospect of having too few children to support a rapidly aging population Agnit aut quid moluptatur, consequam China has made vast improvements in health over the past five decades, with life expectancy at birth increasing by two-thirds from 40.8 to 71.5 between 1955 and 2005.2 The country already has about 102 million elderly, or over one-fifth of the world’s elderly population.3 And the percentage of elderly in China is projected to triple from 8 percent to 24 percent between 2006 and 2050, to a total number of 322 million.


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THE SKY CITY The architects Xavier Pios and Maria Rosa Servera, a husband and a wife, had been looking for a suitable country to implement their project called “Virtual Bionic Tower City� - an urban development project to house 100,000 people. Finally, China expressed its interest in the unusual undertaking. The designers believe that a 300-storey building can be completed in some 15 years. The skyscraper will be erected in the center of an artificial island designed to absorb the underground vibrations. The tower will contain 12 vertical blocks; each block is supposed to have a lake surrounded by a garden. Aside from being an apartment complex, it also has a number of stores, kindergartens, beauty parlors, entertainment facilities, parks, ponds, and other facilities for the daily use of the city residents.Similar futuristic skyscrapers have been designed by a Japanese company Takenaka Corporation. Sky City 1000 is a thousand meters high, Holonic Tower is six hundred meters in height.

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REMAKES OF METROPOLIS

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The Chinese and Japanese

The model implies stratifica-

tend to pass over the major-

tion of all residents into the

ity of psychological aspects

usual three social groups. The

of living in tower cities be-

poor will belong to the bottom

cause the issues relating to

levels, the middle class will oc-

overpopulation are sensitive

cupy the middle part, and the

to the both countries. Mean-

rich will live up in the clouds.

while, the human being is an earthling which is more used to

horizontal

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Some residents of the modern skyscrapers already feel a particular discomfort due to day-by-day life “high above the ground.� Engineers, artists and architects from various parts of the globe joined forces for the development of a city of the future. They set up a foundation called Dynamic City. Dynamic City is based in Beijing. Its goal is to try and come up with designs to alleviate the problems relating to his heavily populated city. Specialists build the mockups of a future Beijing comprising seven huge towers connected with bridges at the different levels.

However,

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of

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cheap bottom levels will definitely feel the lack of plain sunshine while the rich might feel ill at ease due to their life in midair. Living in a super tall skyscraper can be pleasant. But there are some inconveniences as well. We should not forget that a psychological impact of a high-altitude life on the human being remains to be seen. The point is that the architects themselves are not so happy about their own concept of the future city. The mock-up of the city would perfectly meet the market requirements, the city would be a great place for the producers and consumers. However, it would hardly satisfy the harmonious and free.


As late as 25 years ago, China was concerned it had too many children to support. Today, however, China faces the opposite problem: as a result of the success of its “one-child” policy, the country faces the prospect of having too few children to support a rapidly aging population Agnit aut quid moluptatur, consequam China has made vast improvements in health over the past five decades, with life expectancy at birth increasing by two-thirds from 40.8 to 71.5 between 1955 and 2005.2 The country already has about 102 million elderly, or over one-fifth of the world’s elderly population.3 And the percentage of elderly in China is projected to triple from 8 percent to 24 percent between 2006 and 2050, to a total number of 322 million.

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While the trend of population aging is inevitable and can even be accelerated by further declines in mortality and fertility, stemming the epidemic of chronic disease is one promising way to reduce the overall impact of aging on China’s social and economic development. Investing in a formal long-term care system to complement the informal care currently provided primarily by family members could also encourage their continued participation in the provision of care. Addressing these elder care challenges will be crucial to China’s continued social and economic development and stability.


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“As a former psychiatric nurse, now with two years’ experience inside city government, I am uniquely able to contribute to resolving some of the systemic dysfunctions that lead to tragic outcomes in our community, particularly for people of color and people experiencing mental illnesses.”

She seems to be touting the Office of Equity as her reason to continue as commissioner. The rationale of such an office is suspect, but commissioners ought to be representing Portland - not one segment. When she starts campaigning maybe we will see some substance - some reason that those who pay taxes can vote for her. One wonders about those who get to the point where they run for political office. She has already sacrificed her principles on seeking campaign funds. What will she give up in exchange for the financing?

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