Shanghai Sours On Skyscrapers

Civic leaders sweeten up to more human-scale urban form.

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February 17, 2003, 1:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Gord McGonigal

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