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In 2014 we received an invitation from Area 17, an architectural firm with offices in China. We were invited to bid on a large residential development in the city of Shenzhen, 30 minutes from Hong Kong in China’s Guangdong province.At the end of the seventies, Shenzhen was a small market town of less than thirty thousand people. By 2016 it was a megacity of 12 million.Transformations like this are not unique in China; we see many urban projects for cities that make room for tens of millions of people. Shenzhen, however, is right at the top of the game; its sudden economic and cultural boom continuing to attract young people from all over the country. The average age of Shenzhen’s population is just under 30 years old. People over 65 account... More