Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Where can you go to build the American dream?

China is providing jobs for foreign architects. One company expects to build 50,000 skyscrapers there in the next two decades, the equivalent of ten New Yorks! Fueled by rising prosperity and the largest rural-to-urban shift in history — some 300 million Chinese became city dwellers over the past two decades — the boom has utterly transformed the eastern seaboard around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The fastest growth now is taking place deep in the country’s interior or on its outer edges in cities little known in the West: Harbin, Changsha, Chengdu and dozens of others."

Via  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/magazine/architects-in-china-building-the-american-dream.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

1 comment:

Terri Wagner said...

I guess I'm just too much of the 70s generation to ever trust China. Their history bears this out.