South Kensington c 2090, after a few more decades of climate change.
Or Pimlico, or Belgravia.
Actually, none of those, but a street on Shamian Island (simplified Chinese: 沙面岛; traditional Chinese: 沙面島; Mandarin Pinyin: Shāmiàn dǎo; Jyutping: saa1min6 dou2). Shamian, formerly Shameen, or Shamin, from the Cantonese pronunciation, is a sandbank in the Liwan District of Guangzhou, Guangdong province. The name means sandy surface. It was divided into French and British concessions in the nineteenth century. Some of the architecture remains. It is edged to the south by the Pearl River and separated from the main city by a canal. The second picture below is what one thinks of as the local loggia style.
Even when Europeans built pastiche cities in a hurry, the builders left quickly and there was repose. There is more recent pastiche here too.
Other posts which mention China’s habit of looking like London:
Site on old Shameen:
A patronising Chinese view of Europe:
February 23 2012 at 11:23 am
My apologies for not giving photo credits. I collected the pictures a while ago and did not keep a record (though the first is Wikimedia Commons). I hope they will be considered fair use.
February 23 2012 at 12:28 pm
What is pastiche anyway? In a way, all European architecture since the Renaissance has been pastiche. And colonial architectures did have local flavours.