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| | WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Urban Sustainability, Megacity Leapfrogging |
 | | Finally, the buildings themselves, which, even in the fastest-growing cities, are seen in time-lapse to sprout slowly and stay still a very long time (while around them flow the rickety and barely seen slums and shanty-towns and tent cities -- the homeless huddled in doorways and shivering under cardboard rarely register at all). |
 | | Even those cities modeled off an earlier one (as Shanghai was built to resemble a European city, or as American sprawl is built off a very limited number of templates) end up entirely unique as people live in them, and use them, and change them. |
 | | A Pattern Language for sustainable cities, beginning with efforts such as Alexander et al's original, or the work of the Ecotrust of Portland, OR, may be a way to construct a kind of DNA for something as complicated as a megacity. |
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