China has embarked on the daunting task of constructing hundreds of new cities to urbanize 300 million rural residents. Out of expediency, these are being built without any deep understanding of the complexity of cities and their connection to socioeconomic success. Indeed, most commentators report that many of these new cities, like classic suburbs, are soulless ghost towns with little sense of community. Cities have an organic quality. They evolve and physically grow out of interactions between people.
Maybe you can "plant" things in a new city to help it grow organically
