1 May

Much of China is still an entirely different model of humans in the landscape. One that Europe used at one time, too, the village model. People and other living things living in close proximity, in an integrated way. Notice how houses are clumped along roads or waterways/canals, but never in suburbs which divorce people from the landscape or from where they work. One indicator I use to assess the health of a social system is the amount of colour it exhibits, from above. Chinese landscapes are superbly coloured. Most of the nasty stuff we see from China comes from their huge urban areas, which are car cultures like ours.