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