They Call This Progress
What do you call it?
We look across from our perch high above as the spectators gather across the bridge, every one of us peering down to river traffic and a dizzy whirl of change.
Before the last barge disappears around the bend, a bewildering array of bristling new construction leaps up on all sides. The noise, the frantic momentum, the determined push of the new that relentlessly shoves all out of its way.
Walls of windows claim former horizon lines and even the stretching bridges are hemmed in, confined to small roles that defy old devils and convey the new gods to the other side as they hurry to very important appointments.
Propulsion fueled by serial explosions of growth as progress holds sway and strikes down anything in its path.
The bravest of new days is fleeting and, before you know it, another generation of wonder construction has become demolition sites. Somewhere above there is a sky and it barely notices any of this.
© Remington Write 2019. All Rights Reserved.
Shout out to AleXander Hirka for the Art and the Inspiration
Photo-montage image created for use by Market Access Partners Ltd, Shanghai, in a white paper and related materials to a project entitled “Urban 4.0, Paradigm Shifts in Urban Development & Urbanization in China”.
