Entire Western style towns have been popping up around China in droves over the past couple of decades. Bianca Bosker, the author of Original Copies, explains where it all came from and what it means.
Architecture
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Renovating Traditional Chinese Buildings as an Alternative to Destroying Them?
Can China’s few remaining historic communities continue existing in the face of rampant progress?
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Beijing’s Penis Building Soon To Be Clothed
You perverts, how could you possibly think an apparently cylindrical, apparently shaft-like, gold-plaited skyscraper that’s topped off with a bulbous, mushroom like, cap looks anything like a penis?
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The Interesting Thing About Shanghai’s Scandanavian Town
Luodian is Shanghai’s Swedish town, but there is something about it that’s different that this city’s other foreign themed developments: this place is alive.
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Shanghai’s Dutch Ghost Town
Shanghai’s One City, Nine Towns project also has a Dutch town, find out why it’s been dubbed, “Such a pity.”
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Ghost Town? Replica Town? Shanghai’s British Town Remains A Facade
A visit to Thames Town, the British themed architectural knock-off and ghost city.
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Inside Manzhouli, China’s Russian City
It is called “In Manchuria,” and this name about says it all. Manzhouli is China’s Russian city, a border town that straddles east and west.
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Changsha, Where’s The Sky City?
It is looking like the unbelievable Sky City One may have succumbed to reality.
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China’s Manhattan Knock-Off Aspires To Be Bigger And Better Than The Real Thing
Yujiapu is set to become the world’s largest financial district and the world’s greatest knock-off. Based on Manhattan’s FiDi, It will even have its own Rockefeller Center and a pair of towers that look a lot like those of the original World Trade Center. This is almost too surreal to believe.
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