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[Concrete - Political Economy and Constructions]

In June 1996, the Shimizu Corporation, one of Japan’s five largest construction companies, revealed plans for a lunar hotel – with emphasis on new techniques it has developed for making cement on the moon. “It won’t be easy, but it is possible,” said the general manager of the company’s Space System Division. “It won’t be cheap to produce small amounts of conrete on the moon, but if we make large amounts of concrete, it will be very cheep.”

In 1948 the lyrics of a song included “Asphalt blanketing the mountains and valleys...a splendid Utopia.”

Around 60% of the coastline is related to concrete. The bank of 110 of the 113 largest rivers is concrete.

Quotation: Dogs and Demons - Tales from the dark side of Japan. Chapter 2: The Land: The Construction State, by Alex Kerr.










































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