Landgrab City is an attempt to visually represent the broader spatial identity of the 21st century metropolis;

土地掠夺之城是一次21世纪大都会空间特性的可视化表现；

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Battulga told me he got the Sainshand idea because a Buddhist thinker in the 19th century predicted that one day a great metropolis would grow there.

Battulga告诉我赛音山达的灵感来自于一位19世纪的佛教思想家，他预测有朝一日一个伟大的都市会在这里崛起。

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I headed out and walked the streets for hours, taking in the atmosphere and trying to envision what the city must have been like when, in the 7th century, it was the world's most populous metropolis.

我安置了行李，在街上逛了几个小时，感受这个城市的氛围；并试图想象这个城市，在公元7世纪时，是世界上最繁华首都的模样。

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