Shanghai has a model of its city that may very well rival that of the Panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum.
Panoramas and city-models are amazing things, in that they attempt to capture the spread and density of a city in a moment. But how do you capture a city whose construction projects are so voluminous that it is rumored to have possession of one-fifth of the world’s building cranes!? How do you capture a city that is constantly being destroyed, rebuilt, constructed, condensed, expanded, designed, populated?
from Shanghai Megacities pof104art02_11776241_en (PDF 550k)
this model shows how jam packed and beautiful their city really is…that is just sheer genius and must have taken forever.
yeah man, “jam packed” definitely describes modern life in these cities!