Gargantuan Scale Model of Shanghai in 2020

With over 20 million people in its extended metropolitan area, Shanghai is China’s most populated city. With an area of nearly 5,300 km² (2,046 sq mi), it is also one of the world’s largest urban areas - and it’s growing fast.

On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, there is what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city. The room-sized model of central Shanghai in 2020, as envisioned by the urban planners, fills an area larger than 100 square meters (1,000 square feet) - via media pigs, Thanks Mark Dearman!

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August 5, 2008 at 12:57 am by Alex
Category: Architecture, Pictures, Travel & Places

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32 comments to "Gargantuan Scale Model of Shanghai in 2020"

Ivan
August 5th, 2008 at 2:15 am
what a amazing!
dirtymouse
August 5th, 2008 at 2:24 am
i thought Chongqing was actually more populous..
allwhitenoise
August 5th, 2008 at 3:25 am
wouldn’t it be cool if little pixie humans inhabited the model city at night?
i dare someone to to the museum, sneak in past closing and peer into a few of the apartment windows.
could you imagine how small their rice wine cups are??
Peter White
August 5th, 2008 at 4:44 am
That would have taken months to build, amazing.
Dr Zibbs
August 5th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Now if that city were made out of cheerios that would be really cool.
Page
August 5th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Unbelievable.
Schmal
August 5th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Fourth pic down, building in the bottom right corner… impending disaster!
andiscandis
August 5th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Schmal- too funny.
Jimbo
August 5th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Too bad they lack a lot of human rights. The government controlled media filters the new content worst than NBC.
Doug
August 5th, 2008 at 8:11 am
The New York panorama seemes to be bigger at 9355 square feet.

http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htm
mother theresa
August 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Shanghai’s never been so clean.
David Garcia
August 5th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Woaw it’s an impressive city model but I think that it is too much clean. This is too much beatiful.
Warenwirtschaft
August 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Wow that was much work to build it, wasn’t it? But it’s a nice model of Shanghai. I really like that. But I never want to clean it, that would be too much work for me, I think
gtron
August 5th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I think there are some 20 cities in China with over 8 million people that you and I have never even heard of!
want to see a glimpse of the future? this 15 min film was at Sundance a couple years back - you will laugh and be scared to death at the same time:
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/haha_america/
Jimbo
August 5th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Tried the Atom.com video and it just came up with..

“Error loading module http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/services/view/atom. com/AtomGui.swf error:[ProgressEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 bytesLoaded=0 bytesTotal=0]“
Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
August 5th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I find the assault on nature kind of disheartening. Too much concrete…
Housista4
August 5th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I think what in the future the river aren´t blue and the trees aren´t green, this are black….
I´m spanish and I don´t speak english….sorry for my fail!!
BlackBanana
August 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Sweet, makes me want to test my scale nuclear weapon (zippo fluid & Miracle Gro) on it.

J/K… amazing fete.
Craig
August 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
“It needs to be at least …. 3 times as big!”
mkultra
August 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Quick, get me my Godzilla suit!
PK
August 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Who lives in those giant columns?
jenjen
August 5th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
So they expect one day Shanghai will be “finished” and there won’t be hundreds of cranes? That’s one of the first things you notice there - how many construction cranes there are.
ted
August 5th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Wouldn’t want to dust it.
JC
August 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
That´s simply amazing.
tomkk2344321
August 5th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I want to go in there and stomp around like king kong
jijo
August 6th, 2008 at 3:01 am
spiderman will be happy on that city
Scotchdrnkr
August 6th, 2008 at 6:50 am
You beat me to the Godzilla comment. LOL
Mike Schneider
August 7th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I want to see Raul Julia and Jon Claude van Damn fighting like Godzilla monsters in it.
snackworth
August 7th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Isn’t there any scale-sized mass transit in the city? That would make it almost as good as Roadside America . . .
David Byrden
August 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Have these people never heard of CAD?
USA
August 10th, 2008 at 1:17 am
America has to step it up because China is coming up and America is coming down with its 9 trillion dollar debt. God does not bless America anyone, we killed it, threw it away, and ignoring it. Good Job!
But .. it doesnt have to end like this if we get our American roots back..
mehmet
August 15th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Quick, get me, it is amazing..