Underground Living, Bomb Shelters
It’s the opposite of Skynesting, millions of migrant workers going underground for cost effective housing.
Read about it on The Atlantic Cities.
The numbers are undeniably mind-boggling: An estimated two million people in Beijing are said to be living below the earth’s surface, in thousands of 100-square-foot spaces located just one or two stories below street level. These figures have been making headlines (and trending upwards) for a couple of years now. Assuming they’re accurate, that would mean 10 percent of the city’s 20 million people sleep in windowless, subterranean residences.
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