Shanghai Sours On Skyscrapers

"There are signs that Shanghai's love affair with the skyscraper is souring. The people of China's richest city are finally rebelling against years of profit-hungry development and heedless growth. In what could be the cutting edge of an Asian urban trend, civic leaders [in Shanghai] are demanding more green space, more historical preservation, more human-scale buildings and fewer dense city blocks of sun-blocking monstrosities."