We’ve seen this scale model of Shanghai before, but Neatorama provides some more information: “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).” Photo by Taj Campbell. Via Gizmodo.
Previously: Scale Models of Cities.
• Shanghai
It doesn’t work in Safari and the text is only in Chinese, but this eerily cartoon-like, three-dimensional map of Shanghai is still worth a look. (I think I just had a Sim City flashback.)
Via MetaFilter, where one commenter noted that similar maps of other Chinese cities are available through the interface.
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