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HalfMooner
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Posted - 09/08/2009 :  16:14:21  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
What on Earth? #48: Model City

This huge work of modeling represents a modern, real city.

1. What's the name of the city that was modeled?

2. What agency built and houses the model?



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Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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bngbuck
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Posted - 09/08/2009 :  16:42:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send bngbuck a Private Message  Reply with Quote
1. Shanghai
2. Built by Huang Qi Min, housed in the Shanghai Urban Planning Center
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 09/08/2009 :  16:57:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by bngbuck

1. Shanghai
2. Built by Huang Qi Min, housed in the Shanghai Urban Planning Center

I'd hoped that would stump people for a bit, but no-oo. That model is actually scary to me. It just feels like that city is too damned big! I'd feel oppressed.

Congratulations, bngbuck, two more points for you!

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