Does Coffey covet Shanghai’s “European-style ghost towns”?

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Jumping Jehosaphat — don’t let Adam and the Redevelopmentals see this, or we’ll be mowing downtown shotgun houses to build replicas of the Magic Kingdom.

You think I’m kidding, but is the decision-making process in New Albany much different from the top-down diktats in China?

Shanghai’s European-style ghost towns – in pictures (The Guardian)

Just a decade after six European-style towns were built to absorb Shanghai’s increasing population, China’s slowing economy has left them mostly deserted. James Bollen’s images record the failure of these empty copycat boroughs.

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