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Friday, October 14, 2011

'A German Ghost Town in the Heart of China'

from der spiegel.......

"Half-timbered buildings and medieval romance -- that's what the Chinese wanted. But the architecture firm Speer thought it knew better, and built a modern German residential quarter on the outskirts of Shanghai. Now that it is complete, though, nobody wants to live there. Even Oktoberfest was cancelled"...........READ MORE 

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