Giant new office towers and blocks of flats are going up all around the city.
So too, as elsewhere in China, has huge state-led investment in new blocks of flats (see picture), factories and infrastructure.
Five local contractors have been invited to tender for the project for four blocks of flats with roads, parking and landscaping.
In Shaab, a Shia area of Baghdad, two bombs went off in blocks of flats just as the polls were opening.
That's why - especially during the summer marching season - flags of all kinds sprout from lamp-posts, trees, private houses and even blocks of flats.
Its glittering bulk, squeezed into a narrow plot beneath the Acropolis hill, contrasts sharply with shabby blocks of flats nearby and the pale-coloured rocky slope.
Plans to demolish high rise blocks of flats and build hundreds of new homes on the Orchard Park Estate were recently approved by the city council.
He would surprise questioners by mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright, an American traditionalist, and Le Corbusier, a Swiss-born architect famous for his massive box-like blocks of flats.
Under this project, the city built small blocks of flats, mostly in highly visible sites beside busy highways, which poor families from nearby favelas were supposed to buy in instalments.
And Hammersmith Grove itself includes housing association properties and 1970s blocks of council flats.
But much of the harbour has been filled in and covered with blocks of unsold flats.
Thousands of new flats are empty and brand new blocks of unsold ones line roads out of Tirana, Durres, Vlora and other towns.
The student flats will be built in blocks of up to 10 storeys on the site of the now demolished Josephine Butler House.
If approved, the student flats will be built in blocks of up to 10 storeys on the site of the now demolished Josephine Butler House.
Along with neighbouring Prenzlauer Berg, which has the same late-Victorian apartment blocks and spacious flats, Mitte has been gentrified right out of the urban pioneer's pocket book.
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