New City: Taobao Village from online shopping logistics Watch Video
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Description: For the Shenzhen Biennale a New City skyline has been developed that exaggerates the contemporary Chinese phenomena of Taobao Villages and imagines a hyper dense urban region built entirely around the economies of the internet shopping giant. The structure of the Taobao website becomes the structure of the city and regions are organised based around the production of particular commodities. No longer hidden away in massive warehouses on the periphery the logistics infrastructure, factory floors
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