'第五空间' 将全面取代公厕

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Julie Makinen, World Toilet Day: China aims to bring the WC closer to the Web. Los Angeles Times, Nov 19, 2015
www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg ... 20151119-story.html

Quote:

"Users have their choice of traditional squat-style or Western-style sitting commodes

Yet "one must still pull toilet paper from a common roll upon entering the lavatory, necessitating careful calculations before entering the WC.

"But at least Fangshan’s Toilets 2.0 all have dividers between the commodes and doors on the stalls — a 'luxury' lacking in many of China’s current generation of public restrooms, where one often must squat side-by-side or face-to-face with total strangers, sometimes over an open trough.

Note:
(a) "Now, even the humble public restroom is getting pimped for what authorities call the 'Internet Plus' era."

pimp (vt):
(i) "to make use of often dishonorably for one's own gain or benefit"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pimp
(ii) "1.2 [WITH OBJECT] informal  sell or promote (something) in an extravagant or persistent way
2 [WITH OBJECT] informal  make (something) more showy or impressive"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/pimp

Definition (ii) is more like it.

(b) "Enya-style tunes were piped in for ambiance. And that’s before you even get to the stalls."

Enya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enya
(1961- ; born Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, anglicised as Enya Brennan; an Irish singer)
(c) "Each cubicle [or stall] is equipped with a flat-screen television."
(d) "The '5th Space' 第五空间 public restroom in Beijing’s southern district of Fangshan 房山区 is intended to be the first of many such newfangled facilities not only in the capital but across the country, said an employee of the [state-run] Beijing Environmental Health Group 市环卫集团 who was on site Thursday."
(e) Regarding quotation 2.

lavatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavatory
(may refer to "Toilet" or "Toilet (room), a room containing a toilet")

Here, it means the room that contains many stalls of toilets.
(f) 王萍, '第五空间' 将全面取代公厕; 可上网充电做体检 样板间年底房山亮相. 北京晨报网, Oct 10, 2015
bjcb.morningpost.com.cn/html/2015-10/10/content_369190.htm
(将覆盖wifi; 外形 “因地而异”)