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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by CharlesColeman on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:35PM (#19638895)
> Wow, 10,000 per km² sounds crazy ambitious. By those standards, Germany is a ghost land, cities here barely reach those numbers in the densely populated parts, certainly not on average.

Yeah, but to get those levels, they fill blocks with dozens of identical 25 story apartment buildings. E.g.: https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/styles/node_i...

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:19PM (#19639335)
They are usually 32 stories high since that is how far they can go with concrete.
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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by benj111 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:08PM (#19639220)
That isn't inherent to getting the density though. You could design them all differently if you wanted.

You could find an example of a row of identical buildings in any country, it doesn't prove anything.

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Re:‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have... by CharlesColeman on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:25PM (#19639395)
It isn't inherent, but it sure is attention grabbing. In my experience, cookie-cutter construction is far more common, at a far larger scale, and far more obvious in China than in any other country I've visited.
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