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Article: Lingang New City, near Shanghai, China.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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To accommodate the huge growth of population and industry in Shanghai, the city-planning department conducted an international competition for a new harbour city that incorporates the international deep-sea container harbour Yangshan. First prize was awarded to gmp. The newly-planned satellite city Lingang New City is intended to provide space for 800 000 inhabitants in an area of 74 square kilometres. Alongside Chandigarh, Brasilia and Canberra, it is the only city of this scale to be founded in the past 100 years. The concept for Lingang New City takes up the ideals of the traditional European city and combines it with a revolutionary idea: instead of a high-density ...
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Article: New city emerges around key port in Shanghai
Xinhua News Agency;
March 31, 2006 ;
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...New city emerges around key port in Shanghai BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua ... Shanghai's Yangshan Deepwater Port has been transformed into Lingang New City, meaning a new city close to port. The city made its debut at a promotional fair ...
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