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The Soviet city is dead: long live Beijing

United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 06, 2014 - 12:05   1997 views

The Soviet city is dead: long live Beijing

Beijing’s central business district: developed as part of a meticulous plan for national economic unity. Photograph: Alamy

Architecture theorist Jacob Dreyer explains how the Stalinist model of urbanism – a centrally planned component within a national economic unity – is thriving in modern China....Continue Reading

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