This reads like a list of utopian towns or even worlds from a bad space opera . . . . maybe they would actually be dystopias?
The following is a list of residential high-rises constructed in the last few years in Beijing. As of March 2004 there were more than 3,500 registered developers in Beijing, and the government is promoting a building campaign under the slogan “Development is the only principle.” Translated from the Chinese by Mike Meyer. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, March 2004.
- American Rock
- Bank Landscape
- Bobo House
- Boning Park
- By Yourself
- CEO
- Easy Port
- European Culture Park
- Glamour International
- Glory Vogue
- Ideal Life
- Latte Town
- Luxuriant City
- Manhattan Garden
- Margarita Island
- Merlin Champagne Town
- Minority Live
- Moderate Shangri-La
- MoMA
- New Fortune Garden
- Palm Springs
- Paris Station
- Park Avenue
- Pink Box ER
- Shining Book
- SoHo
- Sun City
- Top Aristocrat
- Upper East Side
- Vitality Building
- Warm Homeland
- Wonderful Digital Jungle
- Younghot
- Youth Town
- Yuppie International Garden