China is known for building challenging base projects , and detect humans to populate them after the fact . Sometimes , it does n’t go fit in to plan . This is one of those time .
fill the Pentagonal Mart , a gargantuan , $ 200 million shopping coordination compound inspired by the US Pentagon , which has the dubious honor of being the largest vacant building in Shanghai . consort to thePeople ’s Daily News , the 70 - acre mall was make out in 2009 and persist virtually empty to this solar day , “ mainly because of its location and confusing inner social organisation . ” Hmm , minor planning contingent .
Only in small sections of the shopping shopping center / patronage center / human maze will a mortal occasionally be discern pushing a lonely shopping cart down an aisle light up by dateless fluorescent twinkle . Canned foods and package good gleam untasted on shelves ; museum pieces in an expo of superfluous development that needs no signage to explain itself .
If modern society were to crack under the weight of egregiously unsustainable resource consumption , our dystopian swan song would probably look something like this .
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[ People ’s Daily News|Business Insider ]
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