Saudi Arabia now sends students on scholarships to Chinese universities, and some rich Saudis, more used to shopping for Gucci in New York or London, are heading to once-obscure Chinese cities to buy furniture.

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The increasingly homogenized landscapes and built environments of the glamour zone in global cities tend to obscure the fact of multiple articulations with their global slums.

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