In August 2005 the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corp. hired global engineering firm Arup to design a city for the booming commercial capital of China. Dubbed Dongtan –or “East Beach”–the new satellite city would sit on the edge of the alluvial island of Chongming in the mouth of the Yangtze River.
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