MAD’s proposal, ‘The Superstar’, takes the form of a New China Town.
Moving around the world, the mobile town would produce all it’s own energy and recycle all its own waste, requiring no resources from its host city.
The town would be home to 15,000 people and include health resorts, sports facilities, drinking-water lakes and a digital cemetery.
Along with shopping malls, petrol stations and branches of McDonalds, the old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings representing a kitsch image of contemporary China, with no real life inside. It is a historical theme park that poisons the urban space. There must be a shock therapy to remedy this situation.
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