This post is part of an on-going series about 21 century urbanism. 
Previous post, China’s Great Uprooting. 
In any metropolitan area, settle into a conversation with a thirty-something. Below the buzz and smog of modernity is something the young generation deems very, very valuable.

Its access.

Access to fresh ideas, restaurants, fashion, art, and music woven together by community, public transit, parks and trees. Clean water, fast internet and waste disposal provided on the cheap tend to be an afterthought, but fall into modern city goodness. Its the chance to participate in a supercharged economy that people opt for shrinking spaces, a glass and asphalt existence.

Coming of age generations chose cities, and they are choosing in droves. Well positioned cities are experiencing a re-valuing of space that may have never existed. In my little world of Santa Monica, CA, a square foot of residential space in downtown can go for upwards of $6 per square foot.

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Still, people’s desire to be in urban areas is pushing built out cities upwards.  Michael Wolf captures this socioeconomic movement in his recent body of work – Architecture of Density.

Wolf set out to capture the spaces we occupy, and did so beautifully from a distance. Wolf forces the viewer to see our hive-like living and question – where is this headed? Is this what the coming of age generations want?

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In the next decade, the Chinese government will move 250 million people from rural residents to cities. High-rises will replace villages. Where open lands and farms exist will be concrete laden utility and transit infrastructure. China is searching for a new source of growth for a slowing economy that depends increasingly on a consuming class of city dwellers. The more people in China’s modern cities, the larger the consumer class, the more consumed, the more produced, on and on.

I find this situation deeply interesting. The photography by Justin Jin for the New York Times brings to light a story that is otherwise hard to believe – social documentation at its professional best.

Ms. Hua’s distant gaze as she is moved into her new apartment, stacked beneath other apartments in a dense sprawl of Chongqing begs the question with all she supposedly gains, what is really being lost?
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I am a bashful urbanist. I participate in community and democracy with the hope the community I make my own will grow intelligently. I also long for isolation in wide open landscapes. Still, cities are the barometer of progress. The delivery of public goods – clean water, electricity, waste disposal, health care, education to name a few – is most readily and cheaply provided in cities. The condition in which cities exist, the quality of life they provide will either be to the benefit or detriment of our kind. Cities are the epicenter for culture, art, innovation and economy. It is the stage where this great socio-economic-human drama plays out.

The scale and speed with which China’s current endeavor unfolds, however, is not without great expense. Walk through this actual scenario: you were a farmer for sixty years, six generations. It is your life’s work. Your government wants you to make more money so you spend more money. So, you lose your land, learn a new trade, get an apartment.

Ways of life intact for generations are crumpling, gone forever. Entire landscapes are raised and reconstructed to satisfy economic proclivities with gravely irresponsible management of natural resources. To what end?

I don’t want to make the argument China’s great uprooting is either right or wrong. It begs a greater question. How will our species house and feed the anticipated 8 billion people in 2025? For how long will Earth’s natural systems keep pace? There cannot be infinite growth in a finite system, our earth system. So, what are we going to do about it?

Thanks for reading.