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Private Cities: 'Priority Is Not The Needs Of Citizens'

• https://www.technocracy.news, BY: WADE SHEPARD

I had been writing about new cities and developments like this all over Asia for many years, and doing informal visits where I could get a feel for the place, chatting with home buyers and people running local businesses, was part of my standard operating procedure.

But something happened here that I hadn't experienced before: I was approached by a security agent and was sternly told that I couldn't use my camera—that cameras were not allowed in Danga Bay.

I questioned him: "So in a development where 20,000 people are supposed to live, nobody is allowed to have a camera?"

He said that was correct.

Of course, that wasn't true, but there was nothing that I could do: I was in a small city-sized development that was 100% privately-owned and operated by the Chinese developer Country Garden. The word of the company was law.


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