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We’re sure everyone has forgotten due to a lack of media coverage, however, Shanghai will be hosting the 2010 World Expo. In order to prepare for Shanghai’s debut on the world stage, several construction projects are underway. After all, Shanghai has to upstage former World Expo hosts, such as Knoxville in the US, Hanover in Germany, Aichi Prefecture in Japan, and the main rival, the 2008 host Zaragoza, Spain.
The newest construction project, announced Wednesday in the Shanghai Morning Post, is a riverside avenue in Pudong. We already thought there was a riverside avenue in Pudong and we were right. This will be the second riverside avenue in Pudong. We guess you can never have enough riverside avenues!
It will be located on a 690,000 square meter plot of land. The area used to be a shipyard, but was dismantled in 2004. They plan to be finished with at least part of the construction by 2009. The second riverside avenue will include 80,000 square meters of shops, restaurants and parks. The rest will be made up of luxury apartments, landmark office buildings and hotels (oooh yeah we certainly need more of those in Shanghai, don't we?). Luckily, the designers have decided to keep some of the historic feel to the design and will allow several shipyard remnants to remain. There are even talks to build a ship museum.
We at Shanghaiist hope that the construction goes smoothly, not only because Pudong desperately needs more luxury apartments and skyscrapers, but also so we can show those Zaragozians how much better we really are!
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we (in Aragon) are not rivals of Shanghai 2010...
we are rivals of Beijing 2008! The two events are the same time!!!!!
I find your article makes no sense. What does the riverside have to do with the Zaragoza 2008 World Expo? In Zaragoza the city is also built around water and has many things to see and do.
I think someone needs to check the batteries on their sarcasm detector.
who should check? The Zaragozan's? the writer? both?
HEAD | WALL
A ship museum? Sounds like they are finally learning lessons! It would be good if they tried to stick with the original design of the area, not just basically try to copy Japanese cities as closely as possible (and fail).
Given Shanghai's history, a ship museum would be just perfect.
HI everybody!!
I think (my friend) you are completely wrong Zaragoza 2008 and Sanghai 2010 are not rivals. We have completely different kind of Expositions so we can never be rivals. Our Expo (Zaragoza 2008) is going to be wonderfull with such beautifull monuments,riverwalks,parks,telepherics,concerts,party party till 3 in the morning! and the most important thing with a perfect sutainable development (even hidrogen buses and cars will be used)It is just an example of how the world should develop a modern city and we will show it can be possible. We are working very hard to get a nice city and better Expo and also to "get our guets our very best" so everybody will be welcome. You can also join in the ExpoZaragoza 2008 web page as a volunteer and spend some days between the friendly citizents of Zaragoza.
SEE YOU IN ZARAGOZA 2008 IN SPAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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