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Obviously a simplification/joke but curious how accurate it is and figured there would atleast be one person here who knows lol

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[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago

damn chinese monopoly board is looking good

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago

Yeah it's pretty good.

I'd put more apartments and malls tho

[-] waluigiblunts@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

Accurate as fuck lmao 😭

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

extremely accurate, esp the nail house in the middle of the highway

[-] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago
[-] kristina@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china-nail-houses-in-pictures-property-development

Weird little quirk about Chinese housing law, asked a Chinese friend and they said there's usually a house or two per city like this. Usually they do get demolished by the time construction is done but construction companies really hate haggling for a price and the residents can just sit there until the construction company is fed up and pays out a big sum.

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

You forget, ebil kkkomunist kkkhina owns everything and kills you for your stuff

[-] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Which is funny since if that scenario happens in the US (which is very rare as it would likely be 'sorted out' long beforehand), the construction company/developer will more often than not just run to city when they get fed up and next thing you know the holdout is being served papers for eminent domain.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

China has eminent domain too, but if the construction company makes the government come down there they're gonna have a bad time.

[-] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

Never new what these were called. My Grandpa worked for a joint venture in China and said there was the one old lady who wouldn't sell and the just built the factory around her house.

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

Subway station in the middle of a field is borderline but everything else is pretty good

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

not enough urban villages, they should be crammed between every other kinda-central highrise development. (if you're in eastern china they're the best place for sichuan food)

also a city bigh enough to have a massive ring road would also have like three new train stations on opposite sides of the city. and many cities don't have an old train station, they went from no train straight to HSR like ten years ago.

HOWEVER if the city does have an old train station, the area on the map labeled "hotels" are going to be the sketchiest type of hostels you've ever seen, catering to people just coming in from the countryside. see the hostel scene in Lost on Journey for reference

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 23 points 5 months ago

Decorative highway interchange

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

it must be a tourist trap

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

not enough ring roads

[-] niph@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Missing a heritage university campus area, but other than that pretty good

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

This is pretty accurate to Wuhan except there's like 3 ring roads and like 100 lakes. Even the position: Shanghai directly east, Beijing to the north and Guangdong to the south.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 5 months ago

Train to Guangzhou is accurate, every Chinese city have one either directly or indirectly.

[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

The plaza of "Map of Every Chinese City" is a pretty lit place ngl

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This could be a map of London to be honest.

Also Paris.

Really not sure what the criticism is, this seems to be a pretty natural evolution of city development.

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

tfw no London or Paris People's Square

[-] newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Nah, European Cities have layers. There's the old city in the center (not just a gate but the entire old city that was enclosed by the medieval fortifications) which is surrounded by 19th century neoclassic quarters with mixed use. Instead of factories there's brownfields where factories used to be. Nail houses don't exist at all. There may be some high rise quarters but not as many, and instead of having that clear break between city and surrounding farms there's scores of suburban single family home developments.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

That really doesn't describe London or Paris. Yes there was once an enclosed old city, there are some famous landmarks within it, but that enclosed old city is literally the skyscraper bank/finance-capital zone of London now. In Paris it doesn't exist because the city was and rebuilt by Napoleon. All the other features are mostly correct.

And London has a few nail houses, the problem with finding them is that nail house is not a popular term to use in the UK: https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/london-nail-house-wickham-spiegelhalters-566867.html

[-] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

It would be cool to drive some kind of classic style Chinese sports car around a bunch of cities and country roads on vacation.

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 months ago

I too would like to bike around China /j

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Are you saying all Chinese cities look the same?

Woah.

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