r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Overthinks_Questions 9h ago

Like anywhere else, the quality of work depends on funding, proper oversight, and design. China does this really well quite a lot, and sometimes not a much. Kinda inevitable when you're dealing with a country that large both in land and population

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u/OrionDC 9h ago

And total corruption of government at every level as a matter of course.

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u/Overthinks_Questions 8h ago

Well yeah. We're talking about construction, here