Shanghai Urban Planning Museum
Last year we went to check out Shanghai’s Urban Planning Museum right by People’s Square. For 40 RMB you can check out a gold monument of the city’s iconic structures, a bunch of photos of old Shanghai, models of the city’s past, current, and future buildings, and a huge scale model of the city that lights up and pulsates: colored buildings represent current structures and clear ones represent future projects.
The scale model is quite large and gives you a pretty good impression of how big the city is. It’s also fun to play “find your apartment”.
(Since YouTube is blocked in China at the moment and it’s a pain in the ass to upload videos through a proxy, I’ve decided to try out Vimeo. It seems to work out well for my friend n8.)
On a completely unrelated sidenote, while getting sidetracked in Wikipedia I learned that in another 5 years it’s expected that 50% of China’s population will reside in urban areas. Wow.
Good call on Vimeo. I like it a lot more than YouTube, and I even sprang the $70 for a Vimeo Plus account. Only drawback is that my YouTube videos get ten times more views.\
Also, that urban planning museum looks awesome. The only thing I love more than huge metropolises are scale models of huge metropolises.
I like their interface a lot more than YouTube’s as well. Unfortunately, it seems that I’m now having trouble loading full videos in Vimeo. Stupid Chinese firewall…