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CORPORATE LADDER

The official party line on Miguelín,
the Spanish pavilion's animated,
6.5-meter-high baby, is that it should
"remind visitors that what we do to
the Earth today has consequences
for the children who will be here
long after we're gone." but it's hard
not to read a slightly more sinister
message into a creature built by the
special effects designers behind
Alien vs. Predator. As the world
becomes increasingly urbanized
and cities evolve into megacities,
planners will need to figure out
how to prevent their metropolises
from collapsing under the weight of
their populations.
photo: KYodo/Landov

The most dangerous jobs in the city of the future will be handled by robots.
At least that's the message of Japanese industrial equipment maker Muscle
Corp., based in Osaka, which created three bubble-headed robots (the size
of middle schoolers) that tirelessly scale the 20-meter-high scaffolding
outside the Japanese Industry Pavilion. Aided by hook hands that fit onto
the pipes of the scaffolding, they climb from 9 a.m. until midnight, with no
breaks, as befits the robot workforce of the future.
photo: Zhu ZhEng/Xinhua/Landov

CHINA

ENDURING LEGACY

Artifacts of past world's fairs sometimes become national icons-think of
the Eiffel Tower. China's own bid for posterity at the Shanghai Expo is the
Crown of the East, a $220 million, 63-meter-high inverted ziggurat painted
bright red. Whether the edifice has staying power remains to be seen, but
other expo-related outlays should leave Shanghai better off. In the run-up
to the exhibition, the Chinese government reportedly spent $55 billion to
build a new performance space and a new airport terminal and to revamp
its subway system, among other things. To make way for the expo, though,
it displaced 18 000 families from their homes, according to Amnesty
International. Just as this world's fair reflects an evolution in attitude from
gee-whiz optimism to a more sober contemplation of what it means to
be livable and eco-compatible, perhaps the next evolution should be to
consider the implications of unchecked gentrification.
photo: aFp/gEttY iMagES

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