Shanghai urban planners are trying to preserve the center of the city by not building any more new highways, and by setting up 9 satellite cities, or “New Towns” far out in the Shanghai suburbs. But they need to attract people out of the city, into the outskirts–a tough job, unless you can create an atmosphere and lifestyle that one can’t find downtown. Thus the 9 theme cities, 7 based on the architecture of the UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Holland and Canada.

luring people to the burbs by turning them into disneylands

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