The (New) New York:

The most useful thing I can think for the future of New York is a series of incidents that has provided constraints and opportunity in the growth of New York City. In this article I raised some questions and some suggestions that will at least alert us to the difficulties of the future.

Firstly, the shifting center for the global capitalist economy has changed very fast, from Amsterdam to London to New York, Will current superpower status and the metropolitan ascendancy it provides NYC’s financial and business services sectors – survive for future? The speed with which empire fall and rise increased to a relatively breath taking velocity. : One might say Mumbai might be the next center if the trend continuous on its way.

If it happens than macroeconomic condition that sustains eight million populations might no longer be capable of supporting such a populace and parts of New York City might be given back to ‘nature’. And people might have to develop tendencies of saving instead of Spending.

Secondly, for ecological developments, global warming and pollution will give sunny winters and summer drought to the city of island as the sea level rises. In addition, with the changing scenario of shortage for natural resources, I believe that source of energy supply will change, people have to start using transcended oil and have windmills perched on skyscrapers, New York City has to start using solar rickshaw instead of taxi.

It might be more economical to take out central park and create a wind farm over there to generate more wealth for New York City and to supply the need of electricity in this post environmentalist era.

Political boundary of the city could be changed and federal might create of more metropolitan and regional form of governance. I believe that growing urban influences and rural decline might lead to the redrawing of the constitutional ground rules that governs a local area rather than an urban mass.

The future of mass transit for New York City should be more efficient than what it is, because by the rising level of pollution and price of crude it might be uneconomical to use automobile compare to current time. The ratio of using mass transit might increase drastically and there might be a compartment system like first class, second class, etc…

According to one survey New York City produces 40,000 tons of waste everyday, and as per news they are now exporting all these garbage to nearby states for land filling as they are already done with the land filling sites. What might be the next? Dumping it in the ocean? As they did it once in an Indian ocean. They can’t do it in a post environmentalist era; I think that government might start charging on a volume of garbage, like for example, if one produces more than x kg. Than they will be charged x amount of money per kg. People have to start Reuse, Reduce and Recycle of material whatever they use.

About racial and ethnic relations: a recrudescence of traditional conflicts might start happening because of cultural conflict and inter marriage or a redrawing of the culture political map.

It’s a far enough ahead so that pondering the possibilities might just force us to stretch too tight brain muscles, allowing us to conjure scenario and to reflect how we now in the present better navigate the currents of history towards the future we desire.

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