kurt Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 They're running out of room in China....... Click to Enlarge 59.2 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 Ooooooo....K, How about a little context? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 The Chinese city of Zhuzhou, the second largest in the province of Hunan, is being pressed under the tremendous pressure of growth. Home to many factories and textile mills, residents are seeking new ways to live close to work while preserving the spaciousness of the countryside. Thus, these wonderful photos of McMansion housing atop a five-story shopping center in the central district of Zhuzhou. One must understand that before the last 3 decades, places like Zhuzhou were, in the most literal sense, feudal village enclaves of subsistence agriculture criss crossed by rail lines. (Actually, that describes most of China outside of Beijing and Shanghai, although some Nationals would demur.) Like I said in some of my notes, the place is manic beyond understanding; this kind of stuff doesn't raise an eyebrow for your average Chinese. It's unused space....of course there should be houses. Or, as we might say, they're making it up as they go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Whitmore Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 They're missing the driveways and ramps to get their cars up........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 They're missing the driveways and ramps to get their cars up........ Those guys can afford choppers, no need to drive the crowded streets. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghentjr Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 That picture brought to mind the photo below. A clever cover for a Seattle Boing plant during wwll. What looks like the suburbs is the plant roof. Click to Enlarge 76.94 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Yeah, They tore that plant down a few years ago. There was a little bit of hand wringing over that decision even though the "neighborhood" had been gone since the war. Kurt, Any more about the story? Are these homes lived in by store executives? Are there going to be more homes added and this turned into a neighborhood? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Hockstein Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 They're running out of room in China....... Click to Enlarge 59.2?KB Photoshop rules!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 They're a little behind the times. Here's a real one built in 1880 on top of a factory in Syracuse. It's still there. Click to Enlarge 26.36 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 HA! I've been saying that China is like America in the 1950's; now I see it's like the 1880's. We're way more alike than any of the goofy news media manages to convey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Time to fess up. The factory was built in 1880 by H.A. Moyer. The 2 and a half story house on the roof, an "architectural gimmick," according to a 1937 newspaper interview with a Moyer family member, was never inhabited -- it contains elevator machinery and rafters Moyer built carriages. Business must have been booming to spend that kind of loot on an elevator penthouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I read about this earlier in the week. The structures are real, not "shopped". They're not houses though. They are offices for the management of the mall below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Where did you see it? The place I pulled it from indicated they were homes. I have no idea; I just found the concept very 21st century China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Friday or Saturday article at SmartPlanet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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