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In Beijing alone, some activists said more than 1 million people were forced from their homes to make way for new sports venues for last year's Olympics. Wow..
by exhilaration 10mo ago
In Beijing alone, some activists said more than 1 million people were forced from their homes to make way for new sports venues for last year's Olympics.
Wow...
- ghaff 10mo agoAnd, while you can pick and choose data, Beijing's Olympic stadium is not really very widely used as far as I can tell. Of course you can also debate whether a lot of urban revitalization projects--even if leading to popular settings/venues--were worth the cost to neighborhoods that were basically flattened.
- bwv848 10mo agoAnd don't forget Beijing's forced eviction of tens of thousands of so called 'low end population' in the middle of winter. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-beijing-migrants.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-beijing-...