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Chinese cities have a lot of ghost high rise at the outskirts and the old part of th city is often preserved. This gives the silhouette of a Chinese city the profile of a collapsed soufflé. You ever been there?

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Yes, looks can be deceiving. In general, evaluating settlement patterns based on topology alone can be deceiving. Another layer of analysis is behavioral. How self-sufficient is this development? How many important things can you do without leaving the development?

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