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? The city is being more beautiful. ? The city is busier than before. ? People in Jiaxing are getting richer. ? The street is…. Too many people adds to the traffic and pollution. Traffic problems create air pollution. There is too much rubbish in the streets. There aren’t enough police in the city. It’s difficult to provide clean water. …… Visions of the city ? Jo is 15 and lives in Parkville. When Jo’s grandparents first came to Parkville 50 years ago, it was a quiet country village in the centre of the country. At that time they had a small house on the edge of town, with some fields and the hills in the distance. ? But Parkville was close to a big city, Arnwick, with about 200,000 people. People from the countryside began to arrive in Arnwick to find jobs and have a better life. And of course they needed somewhere to live. However, it was expensive to live in the centre of Arnwick, so the city government decided to build flats around the edge of the city. And soon, Parkville became a suburb of Arnwick. It now has over a million people. Jo’s family live in one of those new flatsthere’s no room for small houses any more. ? The small local school in Parkville closed down five years ago. Jo goes to a school close to the centre of Arnwick, with 2,000 pupils. No one knows all their names. ? It takes Jo an hour to get to school