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> They include greening and upgrading of sidewalks That's a bad thing? > “civilizing barriers” to prevent jaywalking Already a thing everywhere else[0] > “c

• proc0 7y ago
  That might not have been the best example of it but it is the impression I get from the article. Some more (maybe better) examples ... "The city, in this understanding, is no longer a community of life or a subject of economic and social development; it has become a product, evaluated by objective measures and ranked according to what is effectively a price or value matrix." And then this "product" seems to be fully controlled and at the mercy of the government: "Until 2014, China’s National Civilized City Assessment System manual had nine general evaluation categories. The new manual introduced that year featured ten main indexes and 30 points of evaluation." Which means they can change the criteria at any time for whatever reason. And then finally the article ends with a Mao quote, which not only is it like ending an article with a Hitler quote, but the quote itself is another great example, "Once, standing on Tiananmen Square, he pointed south and said that, looking to the horizon, there should be a “forest of chimneys.” Oh great, Mao thought he was playing a game of Civ or Age of Empires.