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Originally Posted by Cirrus
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I was going to say the same thing. Even our beloved architecture from the 1700s and 1800s was adopted from England, or from ancient Rome. It's all recycled and evolved from something else.
I think these neighborhoods are interesting. It's something different in China. You can have millions of Chinese neighborhoods in China, but every here and there you have a London, or Paris, or something else. It's some variety. It's no different than here. One of the biggest drawbacks of modern master-planned communities (such as, say, Columbia, Maryland) is that all of the architecture clearly dates from a 10-15 year period. If there were some farmhouses or old churches preserved and saved, it would give a little variety to a block or street, which is much more interesting than acres of the same types of houses, or shopping plazas all with a postmodern look.
If those pictures on the first page are the Chinese versions of Europe, I would say that they did a really good job. They would be welcome to come here and build that in one of our cities!