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Art Imitates Art

99% Invisible

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Urban Villages in Shenjen

The city of shenjen is composed of giant steel and glass skyscrapers that seem supermodern with these wide streets. But scattered throughout the city are these small pockets of neighborhoods that actually disrupt the urban fabric of modern shenjen in this really interesting way. These neighborhoods are the urban villages. And you can instantly tell that the same building codes do not apply in these places as the rest to shenjen, because the apartment buildi they're waists smaller, like three to ten stories tall but theyre so densely built next to each other.

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