Beijing, long polluted, had reached toxic levels of inhabitability. Your team led the walling-off and doming of the crucial financial, cultural and governmental sectors in central Beijing. Now a vast series of air-controlled bubbles protects the bureaucrats and business leaders of the city from the deadly smog that still afflicts the outer-lying neighborhoods of the megacity. An arcologist deals first in models, in assemblages of moving parts. This often involves the creation of physical models in card or plastic, or wire-frames on a screen. And then, when the plans are implemented, there's a lot of frenetic patching and reiteration as the model meets the complex and hitherto unknowable interaction of small factors.
You're not just an arcologist…