missed connections
Anybody still here? Sorry. Been on the road talking to cities such as this, ,this, and this. Still a lot to do so this will be a quick post.
Paulo Alcazaren had a recent post on Singapore's planned $115 million spaceport (covered by Jo in this post). It's easy to be envious of Singapore but as jaw dropping as that spaceport seems, I would worry about two more earthly projects:
- The Trans-Asian Railway (click on the map for a bigger version -and more about it here); and,
- The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (map of it here).
(And yes, Design of Democracy 6 will soon be out. I hope.)
P.S. -Read more about Jack Simbulan here.
2 comments:
Is it the real estate cliche "location, location, location" or something else at work here?
Thailand's (and now Vietnam's) economic success had me fearful of a greater Indo-China common market that would leave the 7,000 islands of the Philippines behind. I hope this isn't the beginning of that.
more like the network principle of "connection, connection, connection"
think of how more integrated two urban economies can become when they're linked by a highspeed rail line and a high capacity fiber optic line.
the cities in the path between Singapore, HK, Shanghai -and the European blue banana will explode with economic opportunities.
It will probably contribute to an ASEAN common market (which we need and I'm totally for).
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