It turns out that the Chinese learned not only to produce counterfeit products that repeat the design of popular brands, but also to recreate the appearance of entire cities and settlements. So, for example, the “Florentine village”, located near the port city of Tianjin, is a trading outlet created as an exact copy of the Italian village. It has all the attributes necessary for similarity – fountains, channels and mosaics, as well as boutiques with truly Italian names, including Gucci and Prada. The developer was the Italian company, and it managed to recreate the unique color of Appenin.
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In the Chinese province of Guandun there is an exact copy of the Austrian alpine village of Hallstatt. China authorities spent $ 940 million on reconstruction in the smallest details of this object, which is a monument to the UNESCO World Heritage.
A few hours from Shanghai is the city of Tinceduchen, desperately striving to become Paris-it even has a 108-meter copy of the Eiffel Tower!
Near the city of Shenzhen, the Chinese built a thematic park for ecotourism “Overseas Chinese Town East (Oct)” (“Ozacharsky Chinese City”). The park has its own man -made lake and a whole area made in the image and likeness of the Swiss resort Interlaken.
The ancient fishing village of Tianjin was demolished, and in its place a mini-manhattan appeared, to which the developers predicted the fate of the new world financial center. It was planned to open its Julian school and copies of the Rockefeller Center and the Center of Lincoln. The delivery of the facility was planned for 2019, but the construction was frozen, and now it is a ghost city.
In the very center of Beijing there is an international Barov Street Tunhway-Town, when creating which the picturesque commune of Interlain in Switzerland was taken as a sample, with the addition of elements of Bavarian and alpine architecture. It was assumed that dozens of bars and restaurants would appear here, and it will become a popular place for the evenings. The calculation was not justified, and now the street is empty.
An exceptionally British view of the Thamz Town district in the Sunjiang district near Shanghai gives the prayer streets, Victorian houses and cozy pubs. Some houses exactly repeat real buildings in England. The district, like several others on this list, is part of the 1 City, 9 Towns housing project aimed at resettlement of residents of the overpopulated central regions of Shanghai for nine suburbs built in the likeness of traditional settlements from various parts of Europe.
German architects, who were invited to plan the city of Anting, went a different path. Instead of recreating a gingerbread town from the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers, with Gothic castles and a fajverk, they decided to rebuild a modern German suburb. However, the Chinese did not appreciate German practicality – in a city designed for 50 thousand people, 80% of houses are empty.
Holland-Town, also known as the Shanghai Netherlands-a area stylized under Holland, woven as a patchwork blanket, from many stereotypes about this country. Here you will find traditional channels and windmills, as well as buildings, as if transferred directly from Amsterdam or Amersfort. In part, it is – in the area the exact copies of the Netherlands Museum and Amsterdam, Biencorf, the Netherlands Museum are presented.
The Italians who designed the city of Bras in the Shanghai suburb of Pujian, expected to build a modern Italian town. However, in the end, it turned out to be a space deprived of individuality, built up by the same type of apartment buildings, with rare, albeit quite picturesque, canals and a lack of trees.
Source: Thisisinsider.com
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