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Dec 13, 2018

Cyberpunk is Now: Galaxy SOHO building, Beijing China. Built by the company SOHO, the largest real-estate developer in China. whose founders are Pan Shiyi, a former Oil Ministry employee & his wife Zhang Xin, a former Goldman Sachs employee.

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Asian city planning is peculiarity nonuniform. Taipei is not as extreme as Beijing, but almost next to modern shiny Taipei 101 there is a neighborhood full of the crappy 70s era concrete monstrosities.

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For reference from my pictures. Taipei 101

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And a back alley from Xinyi Anhe next door to it.

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Poland is similar, but not as extreme. I recently took an interest (still largely unexplored) in old South Korean movies. Seoul 50 years ago looked about the same as many Polish cities today.

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I was actually in Korea about a month ago, though not in Seoul. Looked very clean and high tech. Taiwanese are however much nicer, well-behaved and more sober when walking down the street.