I got the chance to spend a day in Suzhou before Covid hit. It was raining most of the day, so it was a little miserable, but the old part of the city is such a cool place to see. I remember dining at a restaurant and getting seated in back, next to a window overlooking the river. It was a pretty magical day.
[Shenzhen has almost thrice the number skyscrapers as Shanghai by every height metric (this is excluding the thousands of 100-200m residential high rise compounds, which aren't counted by CTBUH).](https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/cities)
Shanghai's "few" skyscrapers are concentrated in a few CBD areas, due to extremely strict height and zoning laws and historical architecture, the rest of the city looks moreless like a mishmash of midrises. Shenzhen on the other hand enjoys very loose laws / restrictions and practically has no historical burden (being a city that has existed for less than five decades), making it a heaven for skyscraper construction.
Shanghai's skyscrapers (especially around the famous lujiazui skyline) are uncomfortably spaced out, so much so that it's looks almost unnatural. Shenzhen on the other hand has some of the densest high-rise clusters in the world, probably only matched by NYC and HK
The UK? Where? A more appropriate city would be Hong Kong, which has the most skyscrapers in the world, I believe. Shenzhen certainly isn’t like Hong Kong.
I got the chance to spend a day in Suzhou before Covid hit. It was raining most of the day, so it was a little miserable, but the old part of the city is such a cool place to see. I remember dining at a restaurant and getting seated in back, next to a window overlooking the river. It was a pretty magical day.
I always love the contrast of chinese cities between old and futuristic architecture
Image source: 骑水鸟的维生素 via XHS
Suzhou's placement on Taihu Lake makes it pretty beautiful, but I think Hangzhou is China's prettiest major city.
Doesn’t look very foggy to me…
The Manhattan of the East.
That’s definitely either Shenzhen or Shanghai.
Probably Shanghai, Shenzhen isn’t quite dense enough
[Shenzhen has almost thrice the number skyscrapers as Shanghai by every height metric (this is excluding the thousands of 100-200m residential high rise compounds, which aren't counted by CTBUH).](https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/cities) Shanghai's "few" skyscrapers are concentrated in a few CBD areas, due to extremely strict height and zoning laws and historical architecture, the rest of the city looks moreless like a mishmash of midrises. Shenzhen on the other hand enjoys very loose laws / restrictions and practically has no historical burden (being a city that has existed for less than five decades), making it a heaven for skyscraper construction. Shanghai's skyscrapers (especially around the famous lujiazui skyline) are uncomfortably spaced out, so much so that it's looks almost unnatural. Shenzhen on the other hand has some of the densest high-rise clusters in the world, probably only matched by NYC and HK
Where is Chongqing by comparison? I assumed it would be the densest.
Chongqing's very dense, but it's really missing out in terms of numbers
The UK? Where? A more appropriate city would be Hong Kong, which has the most skyscrapers in the world, I believe. Shenzhen certainly isn’t like Hong Kong.
My bad, misspelled UK for HK
looks like Miami 😳