Cities have always encouraged fast living, whatever the century.
New locomotives, wagons, rails and lines are all needed.In her Treasury job, Ms Ramos encouraged fast expansion of exports.
They now see an opportunity to secure larger reductions, without tax increases, to encourage faster growth.
Because services tend to be labour-intensive, their expansion should encourage faster job creation, higher wages and greater household spending.
The hope is that broad access to scientific results will encourage faster progress on research and will let anyone apply the knowledge for technological advances.
More corruption is widely expected in local government, and environmentalists warn that money-hungry local governments will encourage faster timber extraction and so quicker deforestation.
Yet the countries that have made most progress in cutting poverty have largely done so not by spending public money, but by encouraging faster economic growth.
Because services tend to be labour-intensive, their expansion should encourage faster job creation, higher wages and greater household spending.Before heralding the dawn of China's post-industrial future, however, I should note a number of caveats.
Until the coming round of elections is over, the EU is unlikely to take any steps to complete its unfinished monetary union by introducing more risk sharing and accelerating structural reforms to encourage faster economic convergence.
The result was the dismantling of its one-way system, seen as encouraging faster driving, along with the start of a project to install hundreds of miles of pavements, parks, trees, bike lanes, sports facilities and on-street parking to create a "steel barrier" between those thundering freeways and pedestrians.
