If you haven't noticed, I've been thinking a lot lately about the built environment in China - and the rest of the world for that matter. More specifically, how do the things that we build affect us, for better or worse?
Now, if you're a Minnesotan, or even an ex-Minnesotan like me, you know that the world's largest shopping mall is the Mall of America in Minneapolis, right? Um, wrong. Since 2005, the world's largest mall is the South China Mall in Dongguan, China. Where? Take a video tour here, courtesy of a PBS documentary that's viewable online. Oh, and the mall is virtually abandoned, which is a phenomenon that is not unique to China.
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