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Just build a dome over the city and be done with it

In a city with dirty air and very little sunshine, why not start building public parks underground? That's the thinking of Shu Yu, deputy director of the Shanghai Urban Underground Space Development Institute, which has already started working on China's... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Mar 16 2007

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