Shanghai 2020: a 1,000 meter^2 diorama

Neatorama rounds up some of the best Flickr photos of the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, where abides a 1,000 square meter scale model of Shanghai as it will appear in 2020 (provided that all goes according to plan without variation for the next 12 years, a near certainty, natch). Gargantuan Scale Model of Shanghai in 2020

(Image: shanghai_planning1, a CC Attribution photo from larryncelia's Flickr stream)

[#1 posted by Lobster , August 5, 2008 5:37 AM]

What, no arcologies? That's weak, choomba.

[#2 posted by dainel , August 5, 2008 5:43 AM]

Correction, the model is 100 sq m (1000 sq ft). 1000 square meters would be a bit bigger than the room the model is in in the photos.

[#3 posted by Anonymous , August 5, 2008 6:14 AM]

NYC's is bigger: http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htm

[#4 posted by Anonymous , August 5, 2008 6:21 AM]

Is it wrong if I see that picture and the first thing I want to do is play a urban Battletech game on that map?

[#5 posted by PainintheAnalyst , August 5, 2008 6:35 AM]

Cool the new Simcity looks great, oh wait never mind.....

[#6 posted by Enochrewt , August 5, 2008 7:41 AM]

Wow, and I thought that guy in London with the model city of Paris in his backyard was committed. That's a burly diorama.

[#7 posted by kaiza , August 5, 2008 7:58 AM]

If they ran heated chocolate through the river and hooked up a whole bunch of smoke machines it might even look realistic!

[#8 posted by xargaun , August 5, 2008 11:05 AM]

would be a fun place to play with a video camera laden r/c blimp

[#9 posted by keratacon , August 5, 2008 11:05 AM]

There's a similar model of all 5 boroughs of new york at the Queens Museum. Check it out if you can.

[#10 posted by ill lich , August 5, 2008 1:24 PM]

Oh the humanity!

[#11 posted by mjfgates , August 5, 2008 4:42 PM]

Of course, before you get in, you have to go through a basic security check to make sure you aren't carrying any firearms, explosives, or rubber lizard suits.

[#12 posted by BrerMatt , August 5, 2008 5:56 PM]

Did they build Shanghai Disneyland in there?

[#13 posted by Anonymous , August 5, 2008 8:41 PM]

I went to see this last year with a friend. Downstairs, they have this little wooden model of Shanghai- it's actually pretty big, but we were sort of depressed that, at the city planning center, this is the best they could come up with.

Then we went up stairs.

Amazing.

[#14 posted by Jeff , August 6, 2008 11:31 AM]

Shades of the Diamond Age.