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Shanghai's City Planners Struggle With Unremitting Growth

Posted by: Zvi Leve
Thanks to: Zvi Leve
10 November 2004 - 2:00pm

While Shanghai has been rising faster and higher than any city in the history of the world, the city itself is slowly sinking.

According to Kuo-Liang Lee, an associate of Arup and Partners architectural office in the city, "There are now more than 4,000 buildings more than 100m tall in Shanghai." Shanghai has expanded inordinately in the past 15 years, but it has also wielded the wrecking ball with abandon, wantonly destroying much of what made this architectural melting pot so cherishable in the first place. City planners are scrambling to come up with plans to "control the development of new skyscrapers and deal with the problems that they have created."

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Source: The Guardian Unlimited, November 8, 2004
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