Chinese Doc Dream Empire Makes Seattle Real Estate Bubble Look Like Child's Play

by Charles Mudede Dream Empire
This year's ByDesign Design and Architectural Festival opens with a stunning documentary, Dream Empire, about the real estate madness in China. The very scale of it will humble your wildest imagination. In comparison, it makes Seattle's construction and property boom look like something that would be missed if one just blinked. In China, whole Seattles are conjured out of nowhere. Capital there is hungry for the biggest bucks possible. It displaces the poor without