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Development The Way It Should Be


by turfgrrl


March 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Here’s visual proof that eminent domain should be severly limited. From Boing Boing.

Developers dig pit around man’s house

A man in China refused to sell his house to project developers, and so the developers dug a deep pit around the man’s house.

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The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m ‘Broadway’ square, including apartments and a shopping mall.

But the owner of the villa says he won’t move out unless the company pays his price — the equivalent of £1.3 million.

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Reader comment:

Tom says:

Picture 12-4
Reminds me of this house on the M62 motorway in the UK. It’s a farmhouse on a remote stretch of moorland in Yorkshire (well, apart from the motorway), and the motorway splits to go around the farmhouse. It’s become a well known landmark:

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  • 1 P Henry // Mar 13, 2007 at 6:41 pm

    Isn’t that funny the Communist Chinese respect private property more than this deep blue state?
    The world is upside down.

    How sad.

  • 2 Tish // Mar 14, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    This story and picture of “China’s Most Incredible Holdout” traveled around China’s blogs and the original story was lost, elaborated on, and then pieced together and rediscovered by Chinese netizens, and finally translated into English by “bridge bloggers.”

    See my blog for a look at this story http://www.ugotrade.com (March 10th, 2007 post), and links to the “bridge blogger” and Chinese stories, if you get a moment.

    The story was investigated and reconstructed again, but ultimately not verified in terms of facts and figures. The power of this picture is that it over rides the specifics!

    And, now the story of “China’s Most Incredible Holdout,” is appearing in Boing Boing and many blogs around the world in yet another incarnation. Very Interesting!