有点闷得话题，还是关于上海夸张的发展速度。照片中第一张和第二张的时间相隔24个月。感觉身在其中对这种事情已经麻木了，但是仔细看后还是有点可怕的。

The time between the two photos (which you can click to enlarge) is a mere 24 months. Amazing to consider that this kind of dizzying development is ocurring all over Shanghai; who knows what it will look like in a few years?





上海：全世界最大的建设工地

Shanghai: The world’s largest Erector Set

Shanghai’s building boom/bubble is not news for anyone who has read a newspaper or counted the contruction cranes protruding from the city’s already formidable skyline over the past couple years. But this New York Times story puts the growth into some kind of perspective:

就一年时间，上海将建造的居住空间和办公场所将会比整个纽约市的办公楼还多。
已经是纽约一倍的摩天楼（上海4000幢）， 2010 前， 上海市计划再增加1000幢。

Move over, New York. This year alone, Shanghai will complete more towers with space for living and working than there is space in all the office buildings in New York City.
That will happen in a city that already has 4,000 skyscrapers, almost double the number in New York City. And there are designs to build 1,000 more by the end of this decade.

China’s real estate market is so hot that miniature cities are being created with artificial lakes, and the nation’s nouveau riche suddenly seem eager to put down as much as $5.3 million for a luxury apartment in skyscrapers with names like the Skyline Mansion.

Richard Burdett, professor of architecture and urbanism at the London School of Economics, is quoted in the story saying that China’s current rate of growth is the fastest the world has seen in the past 50 to 100 years. This year, China expects to finish 4.7 billion square feet or more of construction.

Wow. But where will China get the natural resources — like wood, for example — to feed this growth? Oh. Right. Burma.

这年头， 这种话题不吃香。。。

挺好，继续贴，顶。。。。。。。。。。。。

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