Here’s the view from my office in Shanghai on a “clear” day:
Pudong, the new business + suburbs district across the river from old Shanghai, is still very much under construction. The site here is for the new IFC Towers… I wonder about the urban planning that is going into (or not) the development of the whole area. It just seems like they could be doing a lot more cool stuff to make Pudong an interesting place to be. But, alas, it seems it is just a race to erect giant, soulless skyscrapers. I guess that’s an indication of what provides the largest and quickest ROI.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
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