Thread: Before/After Skyline Of Your City
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Old Posted Jan 22, 2022, 2:34 PM
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Changsha 2012 (pop 5 million, metro 10 million) -came very late to China's skyscraper boom being in the impoverished interior









2021 (the tallest is higher than the Petronas Towers) -now a hotbed of startups, creativity and science tech, one of China's hipster cities







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Much of the novel "The Sand Pebbles", about an American gun boat patrolling the Yangtze in 1920s China during the Nationalist Revolution, is set in Changsha and environs. A GREAT book, made into a GREAT film starring Steve McQueen as chief boat mechanic Holman. Avoid land wars in Asia. Holman would not recognize Changsha today.
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