If you consider shopping complexes to be similar to indoor cities, this prediction has indeed come true.

如果你认为综合商业中心和室内城市相像，这种预测则确已成真。

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The vast network of ring roads, the annihilation of old neighborhoods, and the frantic construction of huge new shopping mall complexes all reflect the out-of-scale monumentalism of the overall plan.

庞大的环路网，消失的旧街区，疯狂建造的巨型购物广场，所有这一切，都反映出该总体规划不合比例的一种碑铭主义。

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Its "classrooms" have included shopping complexes, museums and the gardens of Meiji Shrine.

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These include two shopping complexes - the Arndale and Trafford Centres - the Birdcage nightclub and St Ann's Square.

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Downstairs, a Chinese hipster in decidedly untraditional clothing was waiting in a beaten-up city cab, and soon we were hurtling through modern high-rise developments and shopping complexes.

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