Smithsonian magazine, November 2011, publishes Arounder 360 panoramas shot by Giuseppe Pennisi of Shanghai in the feature story “Shanghai Gets Supersized” By David Devoss with additional reporting by Lauren Hilgers.

Shanghai Gets Supersized

Boasting 200 skyscrapers, China’s financial capital has grown like no other city on earth – and shows few signs of stopping.
Over the past decade or more, Shanghai has grown like no other city on the planet. Home to 13.3 million residents in 1990, the city now has some 23 million residents (to New York City’s 8.1 million), with half a million newcomers each year. To handle the influx, developers are planning to build, among other developments, seven satellite cities on the fringes of Shanghai’s 2,400 square miles. Shanghai opened its first subway line in 1995; today it has 11; by 2025, there will be 22. In 2004, the city also opened the world’s first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train line. Continue reading the article at SmithsonianMag.

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