This "city" was built mostly out of plaster and chicken wire for the 1893 Chicago world fair, and looks so real that there're still conspiracy theories that it was an ancient, "Lost" city.
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The Chinese "cities" are the same. Amusement park façades put up to make others think China can actually build and staff such huge impressive buildings!
The only difference is, America actually could and did make real buildings inspired by this model
The only people who think that the White City was an ancient lost city are retarded Southside niggers who can't read and don't know/can't comprehend that the modern Museum of Science and Industry was a depression/WW2-era stone reconstruction/in-place replacement of the decaying plaster building. They think all of the other buildings were like the contemporary stone replica of the plaster building. You would literally have to have only seen pictures of the White City and refused to read any of the words associated with those pictures to think this.
And for the white city? They made one building as a replica of this model. Neoclassical buildings were attainable with Edwardian era technology, they had that much in Maoist China. There are buildings more impressive in engineering terms all over the third world. Even then the contemporary MSI in Hyde Park looks like shit if you've ever seen a classical building. The MSI is a cheap, fake, ugly looking piece of shit. Mass-produced, same-face same-pose statues as false karyatids, false porticos everywhere, porches that open up onto broken down steps facing an empty lagoon and a half-walled off park whose main attraction is a fake Japanese garden with an ugly statue from Yoko Ono of all people. It is completely fucking tasteless, with clashing and unharmonious elements and an irrational layout. It's a McMansion for retarded Americans to go "OHHHH HISTORYYYY" "WOOOOWWW CULTURE."
3) What the fuck are you talking about? Amusement park facades? Are you talking about the Disney park in Shanghai or the Universal one in Beijing? How many Chinese cities are made of plaster and chickenwire? Which ones? Why aren't they collapsing? Which ones are fake? The ones with shitloads of tourists visiting them precovid? Beijing? Guangzhou? Shenzhen? Which parts of Chongqing are fake? Which parts of Chengdu? They have a lot of cities that are much bigger than any American city and have fairly advanced infrastructure. Certainly at present at least their urban infrastructure is better cared for than American counterparts. Is their whole steel industry a fiction? All the concrete they make? The glass? The trains? They make planes, shipping boats, cars, even if not everything that they make is fantastic, it is a poorer country. You're retarded if you think contemporary Chinese are somehow not as intelligent, capable, or hardworking as the dirty, English-averse hordes of drunken Catholic European cast-offs that built Chicago into a boxy, segregated yeast colony of ethnic resentment and bureaucratic torpor. The Irish, the Poles, and the Italians presented at first as a dirty slavish horde of criminals who spoiled every goddamned thing they touched, voted like niggers, and it took decades to reform them into proper citizens and to boil away the ugly remnants of their non-American cultures.
China is an unequal society with wretched poverty in the hinterlands and a lot of tier 88 cities built speculatively and cheaply, but you exaggerate and sound like an insane person. China's got big cities, real industrial might, a big population and a much lower nigger factor affecting their culture. They can make reinforced concrete as good as first worlders. They're a real threat economically and culturally. You dismiss them and sound ignorant. The Chinese government can be dishonest without us having to grant them the power distort reality itself. I admit there are likely buildings built Potemkin style, these exist the world over because construction is a mobbed up industry full of graft, with the problem being less bad the richer and less mafia-prone a polity is. Nonetheless it's very far from the norm, it is very far from the truth to say it is what their cities are generally like. The material culture in a Chinese first or second tier city are often comparable to that of any American city. Literally every new building I've seen built in America, from luxury housing to movie theaters to parking garages to mosques all look like Chinese malls. We've already had the great convergence.
