High-rises on the construction-happy Upper East Side loom over smaller buildings all the time without much fanfare, but when one tall residential tower threatens to creep up just inches from another, blotting out every trace of sky or sun, people take notice.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi also faces political pressure to spend more on public works projects to keep the construction industry happy.
Japan has tried fiscal stimulus before, building roads and bridges that kept the construction industry happy but accomplished little else.
And, as Flyvbjerg noted in his 2014 paper, megaprojects have broad appeal: engineers are delighted to develop new technology, politicians revel in the visibility they reap from building monuments to themselves, and everyone else developers, bankers, lawyers, consultants, landowners, contractors, and construction workers is happy to claim a share.
Even now, years after he stopped working in construction, he is happy to spend a weekend mixing concrete.
And, as Flyvbjerg noted in his 2014 paper, megaprojects have broad appeal: engineers are delighted to develop new technology, politicians revel in the visibility they reap from building monuments to themselves, and everyone else — developers, bankers, lawyers, consultants, landowners, contractors, and construction workers — is happy to claim a share.
"It's better to refrain from this completely and find some other way to participate in the construction of a happier government".
But she is happy with construction of boreholes, building of classrooms and support for the health workers and health centres like Tiriri and Ojom.
Neighboring residents, who have been vocal in their dislike of the museum's recent projects, are not likely to be happy about construction noise and cranes in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
Tipping its head toward the self-aware set-up of Wreck-It Ralph (via the Tour Guide Barbie sequence from Toy Story 2), The Lego Movie casts (un)happy plastic construction worker Emmet Chris Prattt) as an accidental hero when President Business (Will Ferrell) attempts to obliterate nonconformist creativity with the aid of an instruction manual and some glue.
Apes and Androids are obviously music nerds delighting in their own constructions, and they're happy to sing long stretches of la-las while snapping their fingers, or to place rhythmic sighs between electronic blips.
