Louisa Lim is doing a week long series on NPR about the construction boom in Shanghai, including a weird plan to create 9 satellite towns housing 500,000 people each designed in the style of a different country (6 European styles, 2 Chinese styles, and one Canadian). It sounds a lot like the fake villages at the EPCOT center, except that people are actually supposed to live there.
Lim's most recent broadcast ended with some serious, and probably needed editorializing: "And with homes priced out of the market for many, Shanghai's plans for its satellite towns are placing gimmicky foreign settlements above the real needs of its own people."
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I wonder what the "Canadian-style" town is going to look like. Montreal 1968, vinyl siding, or what?
I am way late and don't think anybody is going to see this comment (Merry Holidays everybody!), but I can't believe you would post about this without referencing Celebration, FL.
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