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Wasteful urban development

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Dubai and Shanghai examples
of wasteful urban development

From Justin, Tel Aviv, Israel:
Thank god! Someone has finall woken up to the absurdities of Dubai and Shanghai urban development. I have been speaking these sentiments for some years now, it was almost as if you were reciting my thoughts. You did neglect to mention of course Dubai's fantasmagorical 'the World' project, which is nothing less than the epitome of wastefullness and decadence - a throw back to Western planning culture now accepted as unsustainable. How is it possible that China on the othet hand - with its fast paced development refuses to learn from the mistakes of the west, which we are now trying to rectify. Take the Shanghai Deep Sea offshore port situated mid-ocean and connected to the city by a series of bridges spanning rediculous distances. The mind boggles at not only the amount of landscape degradation the port project required for its siting on the islands, and the waste of resources for the bridge construction - but the gasoline - how much gasoline is required to transport the goods arriving at the port!



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