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China Becomes an Urban Nation at Breakneck Speed

The Guardian reports from Guiyang on the rapid pace of China’s urbanization process, the results of which are, according to the article, “often messy, chaotic and unanticipated”:The city is eating hungrily into the hillsides, swallowing up maize fields and rice terraces in loops of tarmac and towers of concrete and glass. But the pace of change is so rapid, the transition so sharp,