For Jin Shujun, a 50-year-old former soldier whose family is facing eviction from their single-storey home, the mayor may have given Datong respectable roads, but he has also emptied neighbourhoods of people.
In the dense city and slums, sanitation often means open defecation, the use of bags or chamber pots emptied into rubbish heaps or canals, or the construction of crude, shallow pit latrines – everywhere and anywhere.
It scales up to include smart cities – think of connected traffic signals that monitor utility use, or smart bins that signal when they need to be emptied – and industry, with connected sensors for everything from tracking parts to monitoring crops.
Westfield emptied a plastic bag of rolled-up £50 notes on to his bed, and said Kaneria had told him a "friend" would pay him to concede a certain number of runs.
By some clocks it was Happy Hour, and the bars downstairs had filled and emptied a time or two.
Analysts said it was clear Athens's close call with bankruptcy had begun to focus minds as public coffers have emptied in recent weeks, sending the country skating close to the edge of default.
They were told the nameless "next of kin" had emptied Carole's flat and driven off in her car.
She emptied the flat, she says, because the property managers were demanding it.
The Kurdish north is teeming with refugees two months after much of northern Iraq was emptied by the advance of militants from the Islamic State who have shattered centuries of coexistence in the area.
The horrid cold has perhaps driven the mice indoors, where they occasionally plunge to their death in the sink, because I haven't finished my washing up or emptied the basin the night before.
Grey bins will be emptied less often but, because the green and blue recycling bins will be collected more often, there will be no change to the total weekly bin space available across all four bins.
