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 Knock Offs
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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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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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China’s Knock-Off Cities and Western Architectural Copycatting, What Does This Mean?
Throughout Chinese history the appropriation and reproduction of architectural styles has occurred. Today, this copycatting is being taken to extremes.
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Oriental Windsor County: European Village Created in China
Developments designed after European villages are being built in China. There is one at the CMC, a planned medical research city hungry to attract foreign business.
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