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Old Posted May 30, 2012, 6:12 AM
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Foreign developments inspired by your city/things in your city

Stumbled on this really amusing thread in the Vancouver section:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...02#post5717102

Many North American developements are named after European places, to evoke some of that apparently superior culture/lifestyle. Interesting that the Chinese are doing the same, but with Vancouver. I only quoted a few, out of dozens of developments lol.... is there anything like this elsewhere?

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Originally Posted by Kwik-E-Mart View Post
Earlier in the afternoon I was having fun looking at a Mainland Chinese photographer's (he's only one-armed too) galleries on SW BC and the tulips in Mt. Vernon. Then all of a sudden a sales ad came up, touting a development called "Vancouver 1792" in Xiangfan of Hubei province in Central China. Given all the talk about Mainlanders and real estate prices in Vancouver, I began to do a search out of curiosity for all completed and planned developments in the Middle Kingdom with the Vancouver monkier.

Without further do, here they are (so far)!

[NOTE: All websites are in Chinese unless otherwise noted. Nonetheless you can still click on the the pics so see them in detail. Pictures courtesy of the links provided below]

[EDIT: Oops, looks like I can't edit the title of the thread to avoid political reprucussions after adding Taiwan developments in the next post.]

Vancouver Forest - Beijing (CMHC is a participant in the project to help BC lumber companies entering the Chinese market)




West Vancouver Mountain Villas - Taichung (Whoa... A first for West Van!)





Zhuyucheng(主語城 - Now this one is tough to translate properly) - Beijing (Obviously Vancouver-styled given James KM Cheng's involvement - bringing "the authentic Vancouver experience" to Beijing)



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Talking about Vancouver Villas in Zhengzhou, the developer not only created its own version of "Robson Street", it has even replicated the Gastown Steam Clock!

[NOTE: All websites are in Chinese unless otherwise noted.]
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