tirsdag 18. juni 2013

From Sand to Skyscrapers: Inside China's Newest City

China is racing to move millions of people out of the countryside, and to accommodate them is constructing new cities on an unprecedented scale. Tom Phillips reports from northwest China on how one such city, Lanzhou Xinqu, is being built from scratch for 500,000 residents – putting British new towns of the 1950s like Milton Keynes into the shade. Read more