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Chinese investors are looking to build a skyscraper-filled "Chinese-controlled economic zone" in Kenya to "match the glamour of Dubai." This means that there are currently three blank-slate city developments planned for the area outside Nairobi, including a technology hub designed by Manhattan's SHoP Architects dubbed Kenya's "silicon savannah." [Construction Weekly via Gizmodo; previously]