Posted Aug 28, 2009, 3:27 PM
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Wow, very cool. Then and now montages are some of my favorite things!
Also, the way we in the US look at China today is really not at all unlike the way Europeans perceived our own cities between the 1870s and the 1920s. Then, America seemed like pioneer backwater that through miraculously fast industrialization suddenly began building enormous metropolises, littered with dazzling feats of engineering on a scale completely unheard of in Europe. Newer cities the Old World had never even heard of like Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis quickly eclipsed many European capitals in population, with plenty of fascinatingly tall skyscrapers to boot. Sound a bit familiar?
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