While it is assumed that moving people out of informal settlements and into subsidized housing solves flood risk, households continue to experience flooding, albeit often in new forms such as leaks through poorly laid roofs or badly plastered walls.
The good news, of course, is that, after decades of varying degrees of disinvestment, downtowns and inner cities are coming back, albeit at different paces in different markets and sometimes in new forms that differ from the old. .
Others persisted in new forms.
With the activation of state-sponsored programs, pastoral activity was revived, albeit in a new form: subsidized fodder and government-drilled wells were used in the nourishment of the herds; migration became increasingly individualized; and pastoral endeavours grew more market-oriented.
They continue to shape 21st century China's perceptions of the world, albeit in modern form.
If processes of molecularisation have transformed the face of primary and secondary cancer prevention, engendering new forms of somatic individuality in asymptomatic populations, their impact in the realm of tertiary prevention is no less fundamental (albeit far more overlooked).
Readers of this insightful book may feel that the past, albeit in new ways, lives on.
Albeit in the form of a cartoon dog.
