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I have been meaning to write about this a little more than I have.. but, anyway, this is a very tangible issue here in Tianjin for most everyone - This city is a city right smack in the middle of major construction all the time.

 Okay, barring that fact, as we approach the Olympics, it's really amazing to note that the amount of construction and structures appearing has increased exponentially. Just outside of my neighborhood, across the canal that runs along the border of two major universities, there is a park-like landscape that basically sprang up in the time of about two weeks where there used to be just barren dirt and trash. Trucks came pouring into the area carrying hundreds of evergreens, shrubs, flowers, and grass, and in what seems like the span of a few nights, suddenly plants where there where they weren't yesterday! It's really amazing.  In other places, huge scafolding structures are constructed around buildings so that they can erect western-building-like roofs atop the apartment buildings that were previously just square and flat. All of this, what, to a number of international residents here, looks  like facade for the sake of presenting a false image of beauty, just to make a good impression during the Olympics. The problem is that we know the record here for keeping places clean and beautiful is rather poor, and maintenance is relataively non-existant, so I really wonder if, after the Olympics are over, these insta-parks will really just go-unwatered, un-kept and turn into brown wastelands littered with trash like so many other places. It's sad that I am left with this expectation, but it's a reality here.

unfortunately, it's getting late, so I'll have to wait till tomorrow to upload pictures of the insta-nature that suddenly popped up across the river from me.