We need to be building new roads and making houses affordable for people.
The difference now is the nature of China's investment boom, which has concentrated on roads, railways and houses, not factories.
Austin is sucking in high-tech jobs from more expensive California and struggling to keep up with growth in demand for houses and roads.
It is building roads and bridges, and houses for the internally displaced.
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In rural areas, where many roads have no names and houses no numbers, Avon delivers merchandise to post offices so that reps can pick them up.
Even in Maputo city, poor drainage and illegal building meant that the rains caused mudslides that destroyed houses and blocked roads.
But emergency services said there had not been many reports of problems overnight, with a few houses and roads in south Wales affected by flooding.
Italy's sudden entry into the industrial age in the 1960s meant the reckless building of houses and roads, the chopping down of trees, the burrowing of dangerous tunnels.
He found that houses and roads had replaced a lot of his old terrain, and that someone, presumably out of concern for safety, had blocked off the entrances to his caves.
Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
It backs up, the drains can't cope, the sewage comes out and as you can see it just runs off the land into the houses, on to the roads and into the gardens.
Brazilian television has broadcast pictures showing houses destroyed and roads blocked by the landslides.
Houses collapsed and roads buckled when the quake hit, with much of the intensity concentrated in Lushan, a county just southwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.
Underneath us a sand road, which will one day be paved, was already flanked on both sides by endless fields of crops, burnt-out forest and farmers so sure that they would not get arrested they had built houses, silos, warehouses and roads.
On land, barely travelled roads link quiet settlements of thatched and whitewashed houses, moorland valleys and rocky mountains.
The locusts have swamped Astana, the Kazakh capital, making the roads slippery with their crushed bodies and invading houses and shops.
It is not only tourism properties which are positioned adjacent to the beach or coastline, but other infrastructure as well, such as houses, roads, airports and commercial enterprises.
Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.
"The MCS recognises that Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) are necessary to avoid sewage flooding roads or people's houses, and that diffuse pollution is an entrenched and difficult problem, " Mr Bell said.
Slums are being cleared, roads tarred, electricity extended, houses, clinics and universities built.
On eastern Long Island, the Hamptons were under assault midday, with officials there reporting beaches being washed away, houses in danger of collapse and roads submerged.
He said poor rail and roads access, especially in north Devon, meant the number of houses proposed was unsustainable.
Moriah, about 45 miles from Saranac Lake through twisting mountain roads, houses a six-month shock program designed to build character and self-esteem.
As for the rest of the Dagestanis, they are left with potholed roads, derelict farms and factories, a polluted sea and a grim landscape dotted with houses half-built or half-ruined.
The town is peppered with basic houses painted in a kaleidoscope of colours, and the sandy dirt roads that criss-cross Punta del Diablo can still be traversed in about an hour on foot.
Witnesses were hard to come by earlier on Monday across the neighborhood, dotted with houses that have barred or boarded-up windows, overgrown lawns and patchy roads in need of paving.
It was the kind of snow you see in films, white and perfect and deep, the cars moving slowly along white roads, the people coming out of their houses in the morning or stopping on the High Street to notice the light.
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