Shanghai Skyline (c) Ryan McLaughlin
Built on what is largely sandy marshland, according to the Shanghai Institute of Geology, the city has sunk more than two metres in the past 40 years. This sinking is believed to be connected to the massive amounts of steel and concrete being poured on top of the city to facilitate it’s massive expansion in all directions – including up.
Since the 1960s, the city has gone from 40 tall buildings to having about 1,000 buildings more than 100 meters in height. This rise in height of Shanghai’s skyline is nowhere more evident than in the row of uber-tall skyscrapers offering Bund visitors a myriade of technocolour photographs.
