Phil Boname, President of Urbanics Consultants, was in Beijing for the Olympic Games – and sent back some shots of the extraordinary 3-D map of Beijing they use for urban planning.
Coincidentally, the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC will this January be hosting Thomas Campanella, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, as scholar in residence. Campanella is the author of “The Concrete Dragon” – one of the best books I read this past year. A remarkable story of the urban growth of China.
UPDATE: Atlantic Magazine correspondent James Fallows writes with gratitude on the benefits of Beijing’s new subway extensions – and what they’re planning.
There is a huge one in Shanghai at the Urban Planning Museum there.
Singapore has one of these as well.
Very cool. NY has one of these too. Unfortunately, hasn’t been updated since the 80s. I remember going as a kid and loving it.
http://www.queensmuseum.org/panorama/about.htm