For those of you who have been to China lately you know what I'm talking about, the urban Real Estate Market in China is beyond description, the shear scale and breadth of which far out weighs anything the world has ever seen and quite possibly ever will.
From Beijing to Shanghai, Guangzhou to Hong Kong the Urban landscapes of China, to put it mildly, are gargantuan. The rising steel and glass skyscrapers are of monolithic proportions with cities competing for the tallest and grandest structures ever built; all of which are shrouded in an almost perpetual haze of pollution. Not surprisingly China's rising list of billionaire's are mostly Real Estate developers. Riddley Scott's vision of the future is here in China. Welcome to the world of megastructures...
Shanghai on a sunny day.
Pudong Skyline, was swamp land 20 years ago...
The largest, for the moment, suspension bridge in the world, Shanghai.
The former tallest just in front of the soon to be tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center.
Massive swaths of older portions of cities are demolished, literally scraped to make way for modernity, talk about eminent domain. The only catch is the government relocates millions in a blink of an eye without compensation or restitution.
to be continued...
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