Pudong

Chris: This is how you turn a fishing village into a virtual Manhattan in two decades. Since 1990, the sleepy Pudong suburb of rice fields now looks has transformed into a city of the future. This was nothing more than muddy tract of farmland across the river from downtown Shanghai. The new half of the city is now drenched in light. Billboards are flashing, highway lights are pulsing. Meanwhile the skyline is filling with skyscrapers; there are three thousand now, more than New York, and another two thousand are coming soon. Work has begun on Shanghai's future tallest building, directly across from the intersection from the World Trade Centre and Jin Mao tower.