China is running out of room for its growing urban population. This amazing design–an entire prefab city that floats on water–could magically create more space.
As China prepares to squeeze in 350 million new urban residents over the new decade, the government will pave 5 billion square meters of new roads and build hundreds of new cities and towns. And as available land space gets smaller and smaller–especially near the bigger metropolitan regions where people really want to live–China may also start building cities on water.
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