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England in Shanghai
Thames Town, on the outskirts of Shanghai, is a quintessential English town complete with cobbled streets, mock Tudor houses and English-style boutiques. One blogger says, "this is a very special place, it is not a theme park, but a real town".blog, 24dash
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previous news item on thames town
there are eight other similarly themed (swedish, german, italian, american) towns being planned and built nearby. some links here
gross.
Its a quintessential English town with only 1 pub? sure....
I'll never be accepting of something so derivative.
isn't this the logic conclusion of new urbanism?
urban slot machine.
dubai=jackpot city.
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related dialog du jour;
-whatcha got?
-small town in spain. ciudad to you.
-o yeah we are getting them like hot cakes.
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