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By Building a Backup CITY!
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/11/japan-wants-to.php

Interesting idea, but kinda "silly". While China is building outer "hubs" for Beijing, building a backup city can be expensive (maintenance alone would be insane)

"hub" - these are cities that are outside of the City. According to my dad, they are planning around 15 or so (but have like 7 I think) which are functional. The problem is that the infrastructure is not as good and doesn't have all the facilities and people STILL go to Beijing for jobs. (note: the city population is around 10 MILLIONS people)

Edit: I know the original article was about Japan, but I mention China cause they are doing something "similar" but instead of backup, they are more of hubs cities.

Edit: correction. 100 millions rural Chinese move to the cities and only 10 million people IN the city.
Edit: in case there was confusion (which is easy for me to do) Japan is trying to build a backup capital city that can house 50k people. I put in China cause they are trying to build fully functional city to help alleviate dense population in their main city. How does this relate? It is all about urban planning and how much do you want to built into the a city? fully functional and working with all the amenaties? or just the basics?

China did with just the basics and per the article below (later post) it shows that the city didn't have enough jobs to keep it "self sustain" and have to go to the main town. I feel that if Japan were to build a city just for "backup" purpose, it will fall under the same trap considering no one will be living there since it is a backup.

Just put it in reverse?

It sounds to me like the Chinese government is just trying to keep up the construction pace in order to keep their economy rolling. None of this stuff they are building will be used, considering they already have entire cities sitting empty.

It's the economic equivalent of backing dat ass up.

Allen who is Quiet said:

It's the economic equivalent of backing dat ass up.

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Dear China, when can I tap that?

Emrys said:

Just put it in reverse?

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Copy it to a terra-byte external hard-drive...

AshburnerX said:

It sounds to me like the Chinese government is just trying to keep up the construction pace in order to keep their economy rolling. None of this stuff they are building will be used, considering they already have entire cities sitting empty.

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I foresee them using these cities as sets for film studios who want realistic action films. Or for pyromanic millionaires testing new types of "population control centers."

Damn. Now their cities will all look the same too.

F5 to quicksave.

Ravenpoe said:

Dear China, when can I tap that?

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When the US pays off its debt.

Damn, that signature is fancy.

I typed it with my pinky out and everything.

please, elaborate on that. I find all of this very interesting!

mr_thehun said:

M
my god you're ignorant.

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Please do tell. Cause I just had a discussion with my father who just came back from China 2 days ago. So either I'm not understanding it, or you are saying my father is lying to me.

Edit: My family has a house in Beijing and renting apartment in Shanghai. They go there at least2-3 weeks a month for business.

Edit: http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Apr/124652.htm maybe hub was a bad choice of word, more like economic centers (i.e. self functional city close to main city) there was an article I read 4 days before (hence spark the discussion with my father) now I need to find it.

edit: here it is http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4501847...ings-hubs-havent-curbed-population-pressures/

Edit: it was 100 millions RURAL Chinese move to cities and Beijing hitting 10+ millions