The Sprawl To Greater Shanghai

An article by Sean O’Grady in the Independent looks at the impact of a 36 kilometer bridge that connects Eastern China with Shanghai. O’Grady believes that the Hangzhou Bay Bridge will create a huge sprawling city changing the whole region:

This will mark another step along the road whereby eastern China, the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou triangle, becomes one vast sprawling conurbation, a “Greater Shanghai”, sucking in poor migrant workers from the countryside. Think of 19th-century Manchester or New York at the turn of the 20th century and, with some multiplication, you have an idea of the scale of the movement of humanity fast approaching.

Independent Online Edition